Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

I try to conceal art with art.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.