So Much Of Performing Is

Conducting Is A Strange Thing To Teach.

We Live In The Least Ugly Time In History. If You Look At Back When Beethoven Was Writing, Half The Kids Were Dying, Mothers Were Dying At Childbirth, There Were More Wars Going On Then Than There Are Now. People Wrote The Most Beautiful Things During The Ugliest Times.

You Only Live Once, So I Try To Say Yes To Everything.

No One Tells You What To Do If You Completely Flop At The Beginning Of A Performance.

When You Play For Ticket-holders, You Are Already Validated. I Have No Sense That I Need To Be Accepted. I'm Already Accepted.