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

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

Home

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

Will

"If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home."

Home

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

Family

"So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers."

Family

"It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it."

Want

"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."

Father

"We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do."

Men

"And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth."

Time

"They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home."

Family