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

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

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.

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

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