Quotes from Arturo Toscanini

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

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.