Leopold Stokowski quotes
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.
On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.