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

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.

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.

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.

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