"The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more."

"Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Ou…"

"Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is bey…"

"The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation."

"The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in…"

"I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant."

"The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes bef…"

"The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their…"

"Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of."

"There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic…"