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.

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

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

Truth is a great flirt.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.