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

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.

All souls have a body.

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.