Arturo Toscanini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Play #Want #Loud
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Girl #Best Love #Firsts
Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Men #Doing You #Demand
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Musical #Sound #Way
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

#Musical #Earth #Return
To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Men #Hats #He Man
When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have IÂ 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 oneÂ of you in.
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Believe #Earth #Firsts
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

#Music #Men #Long
I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!
-- Arturo Toscanini

#Dream #Hate #I Hate You
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

#Art #Men #Liberty

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