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

— Leopold Stokowski

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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.

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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