Arturo Toscanini Quotes

#1. When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

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#2. To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.

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#3. To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

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#4. After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

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#5. Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

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#6. If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

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#7. I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

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#8. After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

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#9. God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

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#10. Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

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#11. I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

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