Jean-Philippe Rameau Quotes
- We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
- Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
- Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known…
- Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
- Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
- I try to conceal art with art.
- Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
- In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
- When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.