I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

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

Music is the only art that actually lives.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.