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."

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."