Walter Legge Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

God lent the world His chosen instrument who we called Dinu Lipatti for too brief a space.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.

Karajan was uninterested in every kind of politics except the musical kind, of which he was a consummate master.