No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

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

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.