[Concerning the impossibility of getting his own works, often based on Native American materials, published:]

. . . such a state of affairs made it intolerable for a composer in this country. . . I was just plain mad, and I vowed I would change the United States in this respect. I was just not willing to live in a country that would not accept my calling.

– Arthur Farwell

from Evelyn Davis Culbertson, "Arthur Farwell’s Early Efforts on Behalf of American Music, 1889—1921."American Music, Vol. 5, Number 2, Summer, 1987