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.

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

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.