False Notes Can Be Forgiven, False Music

The Essential Conditions Of Everything You Do Must Be Choice, Love, Passion.

Do Nothing For Effect. Do It For Truth.

It Is Nothing To Succeed If One Has Not Taken Great Trouble, And It Is Nothing To Fail If One Has Done The Best One Could.

[on Being Asked How It Felt To Be The First Female Conductor Of The Boston Symphony:] I've Been A Woman For A Little More Than Fifty Years, And I've Gotten Over My Original Astonishment.

Music Was Not Invented By The Composer, But Found.