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

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.

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

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

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

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