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

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

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

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.

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

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

The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.