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.

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

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

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

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.