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

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.

Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well a virtuous circle.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.

Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.

To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Sometimes, silence is the best way to win an argument.

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book. At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday and be together forever!

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Dreams are todays answers to tomorrows questions.

The carpenter dresses his plank the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp.

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.