Arturo Toscanini Quotes

#1. Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin

Lisa Kleypas

#2. A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the "power of precision," and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

Archibald Marwizi

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

Arturo Toscanini

#4. 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.

Arturo Toscanini

#5. I'm not having sex with you. Not willingly. If you starve me, strangle me, whip me or tie me to the bed, it'll be rape, which you said you wouldn't do. I draw the line at fucking a psycho kidnapping dickwad who makes me strip, kneel, crawl and call him Master.

Linda Barlow

#6. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

George Wald

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

Arturo Toscanini

#8. ...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.

Rowan Jacobsen

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

Arturo Toscanini

#10. You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

Jodi Picoult

#11. 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.

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini

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

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#14. My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#15. When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

Kirk Franklin

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

Arturo Toscanini

#17. You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

William McDonough

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

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini