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Top 20 Kurt Masur Quotes (2025 Update)

Kurt Masur Quote: “If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.”

1. “If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “I wouldn’t say I’ve changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.”

2. “I wouldn’t say I’ve changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.”

3. “An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who’s always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.”

4. “Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who’s always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn’t heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.”

5. “And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn’t heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?”

6. “As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?”

Kurt Masur Quote: “At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.”

7. “At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.”

8. “What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.”

9. “And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don’t try to say it’s your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.”

10. “Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don’t try to say it’s your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I’m still shy.”

11. “I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I’m still shy.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.”

12. “Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.”

13. “You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.”

14. “The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.”

15. “I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.”

16. “If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.”

17. “I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.”

18. “Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “I was different from most young conductors today.”

19. “I was different from most young conductors today.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.”

20. “Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn’t be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”

21. “In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn’t be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.”

22. “You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.”

23. “And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.”

Kurt Masur Quote: “Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn’t know a piece or it’s a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.”

24. “Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn’t know a piece or it’s a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.”

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