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 fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

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

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

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

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