5 Quotes by Herbert von Karajan

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.