That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

I write music with an exclamation point!

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.