Music Is One Of The Ways That

Expression, To A Great Extent, Is A Matter Of Terms, And Terms Are Anyone's. The Meaning Of 'god' May Have A Billion Interpretations If There Be That Many Souls In The World

In Some Century To Come, When The School Children Will Whistle Popular Tunes In Quarter-tones--when The Diatonic Scale Will Be As Obsolete As The Pentatonic Is Now--perhaps Then These Borderland Experiences May Be Both Easily Expressed And Readily Recognized. But Maybe Music Was Not Intended To Satisfy The Curious Definiteness Of Man. Maybe It Is Better To Hope That Music May Always Be Transcendental Language In The Most Extravagant Sense

Most Of The Forward Movements Of Life In General ... Have Been The Work Of Essentially Religiously-minded People.

There Can Be Nothing Exclusive About Substantial Art. It Comes Directly Out Of The Heart Of The Experience Of Life And Thinking About Life And Living Life.

If Idioms Are More To Be Born Than To Be Selected, Then The Things Of Life And Human Nature That A Man Has Grown Up With--(not That One Man's Experience Is Better Than Another's, But That It Is 'his.')--may Give Him Something Better In His Substance And Manner Than An Over-long Period Of Superimposed Idiomatic Education Which Quite Likely Doesn't Fit His Constitution. My Father Used To Say, 'if A Poet Knows More About A Horse Than He Does About Heaven, He Might Better Stick To The Horse, And Some Day The Horse May Carry Him Into Heaven'