I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.
...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
