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

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

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

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.