Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Bulov’s statement that there are two types of conductors — with a score in the head and with a head in the score — has become a common epigram. As for the interpretation, his advice was both simple and useless for conductors below his level. “If you know the score well,” he said, “then the interpretation is self-explanatory.” Once he turned to a lady who was sitting in the front row, fanning herself: “Madame, if you need to wave a fan like that, do it to the beat of the music.” About the mediocre pianist, he said: "His technique allows him to overcome every easy place with the greatest difficulty." In his restroom he hung a portrait of a prima ballerina. As he explained, the ballet did not interest him, but he adored this lady, since she was the only woman in the opera who had never sung. In Vienna, a casual acquaintance once approached him and, embarrassed, said:“I bet Herr von Bülow, you don’t remember me.” Bulov looked at him and replied: "You won the bet." Once he shocked his student, who played poorly, saying that she should be removed from the classroom not with a broom, but with a stick from a broom. Even his praise was, according to Brahms, like salt in his eyes - causing burning pain.