You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

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

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

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.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

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

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.