Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897), Birth: 7-6-1897, Death: 30-7-1970
1.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
2.
When words fail, the guitar speaks.
George Szell
3.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
George Szell
4.
Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.
George Szell
5.
Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
