The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?