All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

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