Michael Tilson Thomas Mean Quotations

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.

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.