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

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?.

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

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

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

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.

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