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Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Young people go to concerts.

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

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.