Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

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

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.