"Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get."

“If you don't have a goal, any road will do.”

“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”

“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.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

“I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“College was the greatest four years of my life.”

“Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.”

Source : "Daniel Barenboim: 'Spaces of dialogue'". "The Frost Interview", www.aljazeera.com. August 04, 2013.

“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.”

“The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm..”