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

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

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

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

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

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