Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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.
All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.
You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
