I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since.

About Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscaniniwas an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory.

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