Riccardo Muti
On Toscanini's teaching that the arms are an extension of the mind
Today, the tendency is for the arms to be something to show to the public.
– Riccardo Muti, Interview with Lawrence B. Johnson, Chicago On the Aisle, 13 October 2011
Themes: craft, integrity, technique | Art form: Music
More quotes by Riccardo Muti
- Toscanini is my idol.
- I don't want applause at my funeral. When it's my turn, I'd like there to be absolute silence.
- That's the reason I'm an enemy of superstars, of 'the voice.'
- I have spent most of my life trying to understand what Verdi wanted to tell us with his music.
- These operas are in the hands many times of stage directors who with some exceptions are destroying the opera.