Composers are not all good conductors.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.