Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

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?.

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

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.

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