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

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.

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

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

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

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