Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

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

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.