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.

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

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

I try to conceal art with art.

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

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

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

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

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality, is needed in our educational systems.

In a day it happens for once in my mind that you are the only one I have waited for

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.