I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Source: In Orchestras in the Age of Jet-Set Sound, NY Times, 6 Jan 1985.
-- Leonard Bernstein, (Aug 25 1918-1990), US composer, conductor; He was the immensely popular conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic and best known for West Side Story, 1957.