The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

- Ernst Bacon

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.

- Ernst Bacon

I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and c…

- Ernst Bacon

Dancing is the body made poetic.

- Ernst Bacon

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

- Ernst Bacon