There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.