The next movement is still in the factory.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn’t here.

It’s all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

I purposefully didn’t do anything, and you were all behind.

I’m conducting slowly because I don’t know the tempo.

I guess you thought I was conducting, but I wasn’t.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

Start three bars before something.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

During the rests – pray.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo – but it wasn’t.

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

More basses, because you are so far away.

That’s right, play it louder.

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

Don’t think you are looking at me because you are not.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

If you don’t have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it’s so much faster.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

It’s not important. It’s only important when it’s late.

I told him he’d have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer. [On the occasion of the death of David Oistrakh]

I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Let’s start at 35 because I don’t know where it is.

I can conduct better than I count.

I can see none of you are smugglers, that’s why it’s so loud.

Brass, stay down all summer.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

Let me explain what I do here. I don’t want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Watch me closely – only one can spoil it.

Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

There is a number missing. I can see it.

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

This is one bar you should take home.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Someone came too sooner.

I mean what I meant.

I don’t get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.