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 art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

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.

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