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

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

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

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

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

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

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.