[on The Music Of Richard Strauss:] Too

Without Order There Can Be No Inner Satisfaction. Without Inner Satisfaction There Can Be No Freedom. Without Freedom There Is No Joy.

A Great Work Is Made Out Of A Combination Of Obedience And Liberty.

The Great Conductor Is Always A Despot By Temperament And Intractable In His Ways. ... The Artist Is Obliged To Keep His Laughter And Tears To Himself. If They Want To Emerge, In Spite Of Himself, Then He Must Hide Them Or Unleash Them In Someone Else.

The Essential Conditions Of Everything You Do Must Be Choice, Love, Passion.

Do Nothing For Effect. Do It For Truth.