Antonin Dvorak Inspirational Quotes (5)

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

I have composed too much.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not pay, to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.