It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you