Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

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

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

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

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

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

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.