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

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?