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.

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

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.

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

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.