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

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

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

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

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

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

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

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