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Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

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

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

Conductors are performers.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.