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

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

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

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

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

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?.

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.