I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

- Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

- Leopold Stokowski

I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of…

- Leopold Stokowski

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

- Leopold Stokowski

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and ar…

- Leopold Stokowski

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

- Leopold Stokowski

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

- Leopold Stokowski

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to …

- Leopold Stokowski

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

- Leopold Stokowski