Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.