“I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before,...” — Leonard Slatkin Quote

“I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.”

“There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.”

“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

“You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'”

“I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.”