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.

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

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.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

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