Bruno Walter Quotes

#1. After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Maureen Forrester

#2. People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

Arthur Marx

#3. Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.

Bruno Walter

#4. With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

Abel Ferrara

#5. The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

Bruno Walter

#6. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Michelle Moran

#8. I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.

Elaine Stritch

#9. Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

Bruno Walter

#10. What if I should look ugly without being bad - look ugly myself because I am making ugly things beautiful? - What then?

George MacDonald

#11. By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Bruno Walter

#12. Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.

Bruno Walter

#13. It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bruno Walter

#14. The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

Bruno Walter