Sorrowful And Great Is The Artist's Destiny.

Oral Musical Traditions Are Rooted In Assured And Scrupulous Faith.

In Life One Must Decide Whether To Conjugate The Verb To Have Or The Verb To Be.

Beware Of Missing Chances; Otherwise It May Be Altogether Too Late Some Day.

I Did Not Compose My Work As One Might Put On A Church Vestment... Rather It Sprung From The Truly Fervent Faith Of My Heart, Such As I Have Felt It Since My Childhood.

Supreme Serenity Still Remains The Ideal Of Great Art. The Shapes And Transitory Forms Of Life Are But Stages Toward This Ideal, Which Christ's Religion Illuminates With His Divine Light.