Therefore, I preach to young musicians: Don’t be vain, because you happen to have a talent. You have done nothing towards it. Only what you make of this talent counts. You must lavish care and attention on this gift. Do not degrade and waste what was given to you. Work - work constantly, in order to support this gift.“

“For this reason, I hold on to the thought that conductors are born, but cannot be trained. Therefore, I refuse to accept students of conducting, and several years ago accepted an invitation to attend a summer course for conductors, only for the purpose of checking my view, that you cannot teach the unteachable. Of course, I was able to show the participants some baton related technical subtleties in order to realise certain complicated musical processes, but, in my opinion, the gift of giving expression to your personal musical ideas cannot be transferred to other people.”