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?

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

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

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

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

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.