Once You Get Over The First Hill,

I Think Truth As An Idea Should Be Left To The Philosophers And Perhaps Religious Leaders And Politicians, And Professional People Who Deal With That Idea.

It Would Be Very Tempting To Say That Why Paint Because We Have Michelangelo, We Have Leonardo [da Vinci], We Have All These Guys. Why Waste Your Time, Because Most Likely You're Not Going To Be On That Level Anyway.

I Was Starting A Group Of Musicians And We Had A Group Of Young Composers In Finland Back In The '70s, And The Real Conductors, The Professional Conductors At The Time Were Not Interested In Our Stuff.

Once You Get Over The First Hill, There Is Always A New, Higher One Lurking, Of Course.

There's So Much Energy Exchange [in Conduction], So You Get Back A Lot, Of Course, But You Also Have To Give A Lot. It's Kind Of High-energy Thing.