Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

During the rests – pray.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Death is an awful thing. I don’t believe in it myself.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

Let me explain what I do here. I don’t want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

It’s hot as hell as can be.

If you don’t have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

I can conduct better than I count.

I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

Beauty is less important than quality.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

It’s all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

There is a shadow on every page.

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

I told him he’d have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.