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

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

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

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

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

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

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