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.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

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.

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

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.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.