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

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

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

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

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.

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.

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