Of course, experience strengthens one later.

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.

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

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.

Open your mind to a new pattern of thinking and your life will drastically change for the better.

Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!

You're a Genius all the time

Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.

Awe is what moves us forward.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?