I try to conceal art with art.

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

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.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

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.