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.

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.

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

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

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

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