Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Arturo Toscanini

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian musician Arturo Toscanini.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–54), and this led to his becoming a household name through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.

Italian - Musician | March 25, 1867 - January 16, 1957

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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.

Arturo Toscanini

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Arturo Toscanini

To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini

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."

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

Arturo Toscanini

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

Arturo Toscanini

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

Arturo Toscanini

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.

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini

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

Arturo Toscanini