The Real Art Of Conducting Consists In

A True Personality . . . Is Like A Robust Organism That, With Unconscious Sureness, Seeks Out And Digests The Nourishment Appropriate To It And Vigorously Rejects That Which Is Unsuitable.

There Is A World Of Difference Between A Mahler Eighth Note And A Normal Eighth Note.

Only When I Experience Do I Compose - Only When I Compose Do I Experience.

For The Last Month I Have Been A Strict Vegetarian. The Moral Effects Of This Regime Are Immense, Owing To The Voluntary Subjugation Of The Flesh And The Resulting Absence Of Desires. You Will Appreciate How Full I Am Of This Idea When I Tell You That I Expect It To Work The Regeneration Of Mankind. I Advise You To Change Over To A Natural Way Of Life, With Proper Nourishment (wholemeal Bread), And You Will Soon Feel The Benefit.

It Is A Funny Thing, But When I Am Making Music, All The Answers I Seek For In Life Seem To Be There, In The Music. Or Rather, I Should Say, When I Am Making Music, There Are No Questions And No Need For Answers.