I'm Not Interested In Having An Orchestra

Technique Is Communication: The Two Words Are Synonymous In Conductors.

A Work Of Art Does Not Answer Questions, It Provokes Them; And Its Essential Meaning Is In The Tension Between The Contradictory Answers.

I Hate You, Richard Wagner . . . But I Hate You On My Knees.

When I Am With Composers, I Say I Am A Conductor. When I Am With Conductors, I Say I Am A Composer.

I Believe That From That Earth Emerges A Musical Poetry, Which Is By The Nature Of Its Sources Tonal. I Believe That These Sources Cause To Exist A Phonology Of Music, Which Evolves From The Universal Known As The Harmonic Series.