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

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

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

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

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

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