Leopold Stokowski quotes

" A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. " # Music # Imagination # Arts and Artists

" I would like to conduct that for you. " # Morality

" It is my profound wish that this entire collection shall be devoted to the advancement of fine music for the continued enjoyment of music enthusiasts throughout the United States, be they students of the arts, performing artists, or members of that vast audience of music lovers among the American public. " # Arts and Artists # Music # Enthusiasm

" As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry. " # Masses # Saints # Learning

" Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. " # Music # Friends and Friendship # Love

" On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet— I am a martinetissimo. " # Technology

" A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. " # Music