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.

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

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

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

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

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.

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