Eberhard Weber

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.