I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

- Kurt Masur

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

- Kurt Masur

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk …

- Kurt Masur

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

- Kurt Masur

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't…

- Kurt Masur

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she play…

- Kurt Masur

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, …

- Kurt Masur

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

- Kurt Masur

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Bee…

- Kurt Masur