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

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

Truth is a great flirt.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

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.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.