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

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.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

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.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

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

Sincere composers believe in God.