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

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

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

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

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

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

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.