Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

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.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.