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.

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

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

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

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.