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?.

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.

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

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

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?.