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.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

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.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.