“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
“It's not the words but the music that counts.”
“Experience counts for something. I count with my fingers. I could count on you, but you’ve only got one finger for me (the middle one).”
“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”