Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.