As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

There are no French Puritans.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.

Enough is as good as a feast

God shall shine through the person you are and not the mistakes you made.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.

I hope to direct a feature very soon. That is a big goal for me. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting that opportunity.

Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.