"I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly…"

"I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning…"

"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…"

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

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

"I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have…"

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

"It is my profound wish that this entire collection shall be devoted to the advancement of fine music for the continue…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"