If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
Arturo Toscanini
After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you - not a one of you - enter!
Arturo Toscanini
Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
Arturo Toscanini
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.