“There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. No...” — Leonard Slatkin Quote

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

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.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I sound like a baby surrounded by a beautiful orchestra. I sound so tiny and small.