I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.