Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

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.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.