All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn’t produce what used to be artists.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.