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 …

- Antonin Dvorak

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…

- Antonin Dvorak

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…

- Antonin Dvorak

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 …

- Antonin Dvorak

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…

- Antonin Dvorak

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

- Antonin Dvorak

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

- Antonin Dvorak

I have composed too much.

- Antonin Dvorak

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…

- Antonin Dvorak