The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and….

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music..

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country ….

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the….

Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out ….

Mozart is sweet sunshine..

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the y….

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any….

I have composed too much..