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

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

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?.

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

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

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

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