The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.