Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
Sincere composers believe in God.
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.
You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.