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.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.