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They ask me what my secret is. My secret is very simple: it consists in having the music performed, note by note, as the author wrote it.

— Arturo Toscanini

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Every rehearsal is like a concert, and every concert like a debut.

La Scala is the lover who made me despair the most

[After hearing Marian Anderson perform] What I heard today one is privileged to hear only once in a hundred years.

[While witnessing Cantelli conduct for the first time] That's me!

[While conducting the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot] Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died.

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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.

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

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