Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

~ Michael Tilson Thomas

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

~ Michael Tilson Thomas