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

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?.

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

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

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

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

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.