The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.