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

My religion lies in my composition.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

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

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

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