Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders. . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.