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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

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.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.