35 Quotes by Kurt Masur

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.