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

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One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Arturo Toscanini

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

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After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him. "

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

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Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

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To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

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

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