George Szell Quotations

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.