Andre Kostelanetz

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.