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

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

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

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

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

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

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.