Quotes from James Levine

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

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

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

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

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

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

Art has never been a popularity contest.

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

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

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.

The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

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