My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

My religion lies in my composition.

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

Sincere composers believe in God.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.