The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.

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.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

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