Leopold Stokowski Quotes

#1. I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

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#2. On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

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#3. A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

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#4. Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

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#7. The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

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#8. Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction ... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.

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