The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

- Colin R. Davis

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

- Colin R. Davis

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

- Colin R. Davis

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

- Colin R. Davis

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

- Colin R. Davis

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

- Colin R. Davis