“Now that was very impressive. But before you try to impress the ladies in the balcony, make sure the horns come in.”
“I regret they don't have symphony orchestras all over the world so I could see Burma and Samarkand.”
Pierre Monteux
“Debussy was behind me when we played L'après-midi d'un faune because he did not want anything in his score to be changed on account of the dancing. And when we came to a forte, he said 'Monteux, that ...”
Pierre Monteux
“I decided then and there that the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms were the only music for me, not the music of this crazy Russian. … My one desire was to flee that room and find a quiet corner in w...”
Pierre Monteux
“'E does not know 'is métier.”
Pierre Monteux
“Stravinsky, 'e can do what 'e like, but I have to do what ze composer 'as written.”
Pierre Monteux