Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

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

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.

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.