Riccardo Muti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A conductor should guide rather than command.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Should #Guides #Command
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Islands #Solitude #Continents
Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Soccer #Sports #Symphony
Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Communication #Heart #Differences
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Ambition #Commitment #Simplicity
It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Study #Extraordinary
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Spotlight #Might #Shy
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
-- Riccardo Muti

#People #Interpretation #Critics
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
-- Riccardo Muti

#Able

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
Death should take more care with his paperwork.
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
How should they answer?
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage
Do not take a blind guide.
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
An obedient wife commands her husband.

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