I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn't like it when you join in.
Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be.
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.
I played with the best conductors of the world.
My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
Ghulam Ali Khan saab is my greatest inspiration.
I would love to sing opera.
