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.

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.

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.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

The Richest person is not the Happiest person, the Happiest person is the Richest person.

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

the truth is often a mixed message

Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.