Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

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

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

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

My religion lies in my composition.

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?