Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

God, is there no faith left?He has not told. I would not know Him if I saw Him.

When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that’s wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for!

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.

You read too much and understand too little.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.