Faces Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

— Mason Cooley

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

— George Boole

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal,…

— Chilly Gonzales

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never…

— Igor Stravinsky

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)”

— Ellen Klages

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

— Caroline Polachek

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

— Gottfried Leibniz

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

— Gregory Bateson

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

— T. S. Eliot