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?.

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.

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

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

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

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?.