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.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

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

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.