He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice.

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.