The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

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

Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

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.