Toscanini Quotes

#1. From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

Georg Solti

#2. I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Francis Ford Coppola

#3. Did anyone tell Toscanini, or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and a normal life?

Elisabeth Mann Borgese

#4. Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? "It could be better." Think about it.

Terrence Malick

#5. But one thing she'd learned was that if a girl didn't ask, a girl wouldn't get.

Leanne Banks

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

Arturo Toscanini

#7. 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

#8. Story-selling is the secret to successful brand selling

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#9. After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

John Nelson Darby

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

Arturo Toscanini

#11. I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

Joseph Heller

#12. I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

Daniel H. Pink

#13. 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

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

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini

#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. 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."

Arturo Toscanini

#18. Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#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

#21. 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

#22. We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Anson Mount