To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.