French Conductor Quotes

Lorin Maazel

Pierre Monteux

I come to a performance of music that I know very well as if I were performing it for the first time. Every day is a new day, a new experience. This is the way I approach a masterpiece. A masterpiece can never age - it's only the people who perform it or listen to it who become insensitive to it. If you come with a fresh feeling toward a masterpiece, it will always feel fresh and give you the benefit of its genius.

I regret they don't have symphony orchestras all over the world so I could see Burma and Samarkand.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else—the strongest, subtlest minds go astray.

Camille Saint-Saëns