Arturo Toscanini quotes
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“If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.”
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“I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.”
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“Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!”
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“God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.”
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“After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.”
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“To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.”
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“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.â€â€œAfter I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.”
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“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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“I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!”
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“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
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