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

"Look at him. He is one of your kind, gaunt like you. His head is carved in hard bone, between chin and forehead, with…"

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

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

"Every conductor–even those who, like me, were born in Britain and raised in the United States–must sooner or later co…"

"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…"