We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
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.
When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.