To Study Music, We Must Learn The

It Is One Thing To Be Gifted And Quite Another Thing To Be Worthy Of One's Own Gift.

It Is So Much Easier To Rest Contented With What We Have Already Acquired Than To Change Ever So Slightly Those Routine But Profound Habits Of Thought And Feeling Which Govern Our Life, And By Which We Live So Blissfully. This Mental Inertia Is, Perhaps, Our Greatest Enemy. Insidiously It Leads Us To Assume That We Can Renew Our Lives Without Renewing Our Habits.

[on Being Asked How It Felt To Be The First Female Conductor Of The Boston Symphony:] I've Been A Woman For A Little More Than Fifty Years, And I've Gotten Over My Original Astonishment.

The Constitution Of The United States Is Not A Mere Lawyers' Document; It Is A Vehicle Of Life, And Its Spirit Is Always The Spirit Of The Age.

False Notes Can Be Forgiven, False Music Cannot.