Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
My religion lies in my composition.
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
Sincere composers believe in God.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
