Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too,… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
