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It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.


I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.


We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.


Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.


And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.


If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.


So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.


When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.


I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.


I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.


I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.


My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.


There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.


They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.


We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.


You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.


And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.


As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.


What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.


It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.