Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.