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

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

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

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

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.

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