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.

Composers are not all good conductors.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

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.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.