“Don’t be disrespectful to your players (no swearing)”

— Pierre Monteux

Quoted in Monteux, Doris G (1965). It's All in the Music: The Life and Work of Pierre Monteux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. OCLC 604, pp. 215-216

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