Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

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

What force is more potent than love?

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

When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.