- Adam Pietrzyk: [Rehearsing Beethoven's 5th Symphony with his orchestra] No, listen... It's like this - fate knocks at the door, it opens... And what does the conductor do? The conductor walks out because he's had enough. Some parts are still not right. It's not Beethoven. It must have drive, vitality! In this situation it's better to play it like a match: men against women.
- Adam Pietrzyk: Lasocki ran away. He hid in the dressing room, wouldn't face anyone. That's why he went abroad, that's why he ran away. He pushed his way to the top and he is said to work wonders with his orchestras. What a crap! There's a hundred like him in the world, at least ten in Poland. But without the legend.
- Marta: No, listen. He loved my mother very much. That evening before the concert she told him that she would marry my father.
- John Lasocki: [Rehearsing Beethoven's 5th Symphony with Adam's orchestra] We want to perform the music. But what does the music ask from us? My young colleague said he could hear fate knocking at the door. Yes, but at whose door?