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

I try to conceal art with art.

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

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

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

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.