The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.