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

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

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.