The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.