The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

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.

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

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

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