»Indeed, music helps us to learn about ourselves and to understand ourselves in our deepest being, placing together both the troubles and the joys of life.«

»Art and faith construct the City of God in the midst of that of men. Music and faith united in fruitful symbiosis lead man in his long search for inner peace. Far from abandoning him to an ephemeral divertissement, they call him evermore to surpass himself, to recognize the One who is the source of every Beauty and who gives meaning to the world: on this earth a small piece of Paradise.«