The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.