To feel and understand it you must be born a musician, and you know well enough that these gentlemen who are paid to sing in the choir know nothing about music.

When I see you, Gabriel, smiling at religious things, I guess by your manner how much you conceal, and I am sure you are right.

I was interested to know the history of music in the Church.
I have followed step by step the long Calvary of this unhappy art, carrying the cross of worship uphill through the long centuries.

You have heard people often talk of religious music, as if it were a thing apart, believed in by the Church; but it is all a lie, for religious music does not exist." The Perrero had moved off when he heard that the Chapel-master, whose loquacity was indefatigable when he spoke of his art, had started on the theme of music.

He had formed his own opinion of Don Luis and told it to everyone in the upper cloister.