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

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

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

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?.

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

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

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