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

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.

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.

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.

You bring the influence of the Kingdom to the people by giving them things that would interest them

Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.

The amazing thing is nobody has to believe in anything all they have to do is be wiling to try.

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

To me there's no doubt I will be fighting for victory.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.