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

- Herbert Von Karajan

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.

- Herbert Von Karajan

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…

- Herbert Von Karajan

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…

- Herbert Von Karajan

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

- Herbert Von Karajan

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

- Herbert Von Karajan

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

- Herbert Von Karajan

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

- Herbert Von Karajan