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

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

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.

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.

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