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.

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

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.

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

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.