With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same