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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.