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.

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

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

Sincere composers believe in God.

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