George Szell Quotes

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.