“I love Bach as a King, Beethoven as a Titan, Schumann and Chopin as poets, Wagner as a illustrator, Liszt as a visionary in his spirits and all the others, but only good.”

“Don’t go out to effect, don’t write as a dilettanti trying liking of large masses of people.”

After performance of the 3rh Symphony of E. Tubin Artur Kapp said: ”Tubin is genius, Tubin is better then Brahms.”

“Don’t look for, don’t combine, don’t do abnormal windings and turnings. In a word: doesn’t mechanise music. Write what do you feel naturally, but only then, if you need it from heart. And work it through in your fantasy. This working can’t be forced. At the same time don’t forget - the thought has own construction, own form, architecture”.