"When Toscanini conducted, it was like fate striking, infallible, inexorable. His innate sense of rhythm, his memory, …"

"[Arturo Toscanini is] the greatest conductor in the world."

"[Upon learning of the beating of Toscanini by a group of Fascist Blackshirts] I am really happy. It will teach a good…"

"He projected the figure of the conductor beyond the stage. Every legend has a surplus, an excess of image. However, w…"

"La Scala is the lover who made me despair the most"

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

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

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

"Everyone here is celebrating me—everyone is raving about me! […] Tonight I have my first concert. It's useless for me…"

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