Gustav Mahler

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

Barack Obama is crazy sexy.