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A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

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On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet— I am a martinetissimo.

I understand you are doing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." I would love to do that for you. I will do it for nothing.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. CBS TV 1976

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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