Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

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.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.