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

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.

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

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

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

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

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.