Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.