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.

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

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

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

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.

I know absolutely nothing about music.