“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.”

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”