Toscanini Quotes

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

Music is either good or it isn’t, it’s not someone’s opinion.

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.