Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

- Bruno Walter

Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond…

- Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

- Bruno Walter

The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men…

- Bruno Walter

Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also…

- Bruno Walter

There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which …

- Bruno Walter

The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

- Bruno Walter

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

- Bruno Walter

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and…

- Bruno Walter