Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.