Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

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

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

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

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?.