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

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

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

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?