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.

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.

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

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

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

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

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?.