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

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.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

Three great actions; explore, experiment and experience.

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

You can't legislate sobriety.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.

Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.