Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.