-To encourage and actively promote the highest standards of creativity, performance, education, and research in music in America

-To develop and encourage loyalty to the Alma Mater

-To foster the mutual welfare and brotherhood of students of music

-To develop the truest fraternal spirit among its members

-To instill in all people an awareness of music's important role in the enrichment of the human spirit

"OUR BUSINESS IS THE MAKING OF MEN; AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR US ' ARE SINFONIANS ANY BETTER FOR BEING SINFONIANS?  DO THEY LEAVE OUR PORTALS PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, MORALLY STRONGER, CLEANER, PURER - IN FACT MORE WORTHY MEN THAN WHEN THEY ENTER?' IF NOT, THEN THE SINFONIA FRATERNITY HAS NO EXCUSE FOR EXISTING AND FOR MAKING SUCH LARGE DRAFTS ON OUR TIME, OUR ENERGY AND OUR MEANS."
- Ossian Everett Mills; founder