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" As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation. "

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" If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home. "

" At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching. "

" We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution. "

" I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. "

" I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. "

" Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist. "

" I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. "

" Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. "

" There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. "

" I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always. "

" What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent. "

" You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another. "

" So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers. "

" I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment. "

" When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before. "

" It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. "

" It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that. "

" But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue. "

" It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. "

" And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same. "

" Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. "

" Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it. "

" And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth. "

" Art has never been a popularity contest. "