The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men….

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life..

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and….

Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also….

Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond….

The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal..

There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which ….

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..