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.

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.

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

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

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