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.

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.

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

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

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.