Composers are not all good conductors.

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.

Composers are not all good conductors.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

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

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