To Study Music, We Must Learn The

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 The Music Of Richard Strauss:] Too Many Notes!

Without A Strong Cup To Carry The Emotion, It Is Only A Curiosity. Great Art Can Come To Us Only In Strong Cups. Without Emotion, There Is Nothing To Carry.

Nothing Is Better Than Music; When It Takes Us Out Of Time, It Has Done More For Us Than We Have The Right To Hope For: It Has Broadened The Limits Of Our Sorrowful Life, It Has Lit Up The Sweetness Of Our Hours Of Happiness By Effacing The Pettinesses That Diminish Us, Bringing Us Back Pure And New To What Was, What Will Be, What Music Has Created For Us.

The Great Conductor Is Always A Despot By Temperament And Intractable In His Ways. ... The Artist Is Obliged To Keep His Laughter And Tears To Himself. If They Want To Emerge, In Spite Of Himself, Then He Must Hide Them Or Unleash Them In Someone Else.