An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.