The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo..

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice..

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to chea….

From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed rac….

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing..

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors..

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite..

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are….

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds..

What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that conditi….

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ide….

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History o….

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisib….

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it..

It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a tr….

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart..

I write music with an exclamation point!.

I know absolutely nothing about music..

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them..

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious..

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance..