- Ann Romano: How come you never got married?
- Byron De Veer: Never enough time for it. I joke a lot about music, but it takes longer to become a good conductor than it does to become a surgeon. So you end up learning to live through the music. Mozart taught me to laugh, and Beethoven to cry.
- Ann Romano: Most men wouldn't admit to the crying part.
- Byron De Veer: Most men never get to conduct Beethoven.