I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

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.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.