Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Composers are not all good conductors.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for?

Worry about others but don't show it.Don't worry about things that cannot be changed.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

Obsess about the next customer, not only the ones you have.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.