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. – Plato

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. – Harry Connick, Jr.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz