It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

- Anton Seidl

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident,…

- Anton Seidl

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

- Anton Seidl

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

- Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

- Anton Seidl

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, f…

- Anton Seidl

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they ha…

- Anton Seidl

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious …

- Anton Seidl

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.

- Anton Seidl