A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

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

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

What force is more potent than love?