From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

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

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.

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

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

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.