I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. Anton Seidl Read Quote
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes. Anton Seidl Read Quote
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study. Anton Seidl Read Quote
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor’s gift. Anton Seidl Read Quote
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. Anton Seidl Read Quote
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure. Anton Seidl Read Quote
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. Anton Seidl Read Quote
The conductor’s gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. Anton Seidl Read Quote
