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

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

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?

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

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.