Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.