Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.

The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.