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"Sincere composers believe in God."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
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"I thank God for making me a man."
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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."
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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
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"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband."
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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."
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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."
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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
Music
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"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."
Beauty
"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."
Son
"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
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"Sincere composers believe in God."
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"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."
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"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"
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"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time."
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"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
Music
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