The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.