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

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.

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.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

The warmth of our bodies began to melt my frozen heart bit by bit.

Life sucks. Hard. I don’t care how melodramatic that sounds, it’s the truth and I’m living it.

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.