Music Quotes

The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.

12643 quotes

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"Music speaks to dimensions of experience that language cannot capture."
Bruno Bettelheim
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"Music, like language, is a key that unlocks dimensions of the soul otherwise inaccessible."
Mircea Eliade
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"Music unites the tribe across time"
Pierre Clastres
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"The dance is both expression and social glue."
Pierre Clastres
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"The song carries history that documents cannot hold."
Pierre Clastres
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"The song is the memory of the people."
Pierre Clastres
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"The music of a culture reveals its deepest values."
Pierre Clastres
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"Music speaks the language that words can only approximate."
Pierre Clastres
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"Music is organized sound and organized silence"
Gregory Bateson
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"Music is the mathematics of emotion"
Gregory Bateson
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Music expresses what words cannot."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Music is the language of pattern in time."
Gregory Bateson
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"Music is the language of eternity."
Oswald Spengler
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"Music elevates the soul."
Oswald Spengler
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible."
Gregory Bateson
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"Music transcends cultural boundaries because it speaks to something universal in human nature."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Music has the power to move the human heart in ways that words alone cannot."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Music is the voice of the soul."
Christopher Dawson
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"Music speaks to the heart when words fail."
Christopher Dawson
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"Music is the universal language that transcends all cultural boundaries."
Margaret Mead
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"Music expresses what words alone cannot capture about the human experience."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"The musician grasps truths about human nature that the philosopher labors to articulate."
Oswald Spengler
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Music is the mathematics of emotion."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Music is the universal language of emotion."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Music speaks to something deeper than language can reach."
Margaret Mead
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"Music speaks to the human soul in ways that reason alone cannot reach."
Christopher Dawson
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"Music is the universal language of human emotion."
Marc Bloch
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"Music is the language of the soul transcending words."
Oswald Spengler