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

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

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

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

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.