I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
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.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
My religion lies in my composition.
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.
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains
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 s...