I think of the classical world as a cancer patient or an AIDS patient. You know you have a limited life span. The question you now might want to ask is what would be the most important things to do now with your remaining years. I would like to think that that type of prioritizing could happen with museums, symphony orchestras, opera companies. Things really are urgent right now, and what we're doing somehow has to matter, has to make a contribution.


In: Mark Swed, "For L.A., History's Knocking", Los Angeles Times, December 26, 1996

Peter Sellars Quotes

I think of the classical world as a cancer patient or an AIDS patient. You know you have a limited life span. The question you now might want to ask...

I think of the classical world as a cancer patient or an AIDS patient. You know you have a limited life span. The question you now might want to ask...

I think of the classical world as a cancer patient or an AIDS patient. You know you have a limited life span. The question you now might want to ask...

I think of the classical world as a cancer patient or an AIDS patient. You know you have a limited life span. The question you now might want to ask...