Quotes by Colin Davis

• All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
• Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
• Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
• Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
• To lose your temper is only useful once a year.