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

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

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.

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.

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