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
When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. — Arturo Toscanini
To some it is napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. — 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