Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.