Technique Is Communication: The Two

The Rhapsody Is Not A Composition At All. It's A String Of Separate Paragraphs Stuck Together - With A Thin Paste Of Flour And Water... I Don't Think There Has Been Such An Inspired Melodist On This Earth Since Tchaikovsky... But If You Want To Speak Of A Composer, That's Another Matter.

Life Without Music Is Unthinkable. Life Without Music Is Academic. That Is Why My Contact With Music Is A Total Embrace.

You Can Sit There, Tense And Worried, Freezing The Creative Energies, Or You Can Start Writing Something. It Doesn't Matter What. In Five Or Ten Minutes, The Imagination Will Heat, The Tightness Will Fade, And A Certain Spirit And Rhythm Will Take Over.

Success Is All Very Well As Long As You Don't Inhale.

Conducting Is Like Making Love To A Hundred People At The Same Time.