Most convincing to me of the spiritual relations between mathematics and music, is my own very personal experience. Composing in an amateurish way, I get exactly the same elevation from a prelude that has come to me at the piano, as I do from a new idea that has come to me in mathematics.

In: Raymond George Ayoub, Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections, Mathematics and the Arts (p. 88)