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

I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed to do this….

In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his….

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..

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

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated..

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

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