“On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet— I am a martinetissimo.”

— Leopold Stokowski

Statement recalled in obituaries (13 September 1977), as quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) compiled by James B. Simpson

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