Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"Music speaks to dimensions of experience that language cannot capture."Bruno Bettelheim
"Music, like language, is a key that unlocks dimensions of the soul otherwise inaccessible."Mircea Eliade
"Music unites the tribe across time"Pierre Clastres
"The dance is both expression and social glue."Pierre Clastres
"The song carries history that documents cannot hold."Pierre Clastres
"The song is the memory of the people."Pierre Clastres
"The music of a culture reveals its deepest values."Pierre Clastres
"Music speaks the language that words can only approximate."Pierre Clastres
"Music is organized sound and organized silence"Gregory Bateson
"Music is the mathematics of emotion"Gregory Bateson
"Music is the universal language of mankind."Alfred Kroeber
"Music expresses what words cannot."Alfred Kroeber
"Music is the language of pattern in time."Gregory Bateson
"Music is the language of eternity."Oswald Spengler
"Music elevates the soul."Oswald Spengler
"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible."Gregory Bateson
"Music transcends cultural boundaries because it speaks to something universal in human nature."Bronislaw Malinowski
"Music has the power to move the human heart in ways that words alone cannot."Arnold Toynbee
"Music is the voice of the soul."Christopher Dawson
"Music speaks to the heart when words fail."Christopher Dawson
"Music is the universal language that transcends all cultural boundaries."Margaret Mead
"Music expresses what words alone cannot capture about the human experience."Bronislaw Malinowski
"The musician grasps truths about human nature that the philosopher labors to articulate."Oswald Spengler
"Music speaks what words cannot express."Jacques Le Goff
"Music is the mathematics of emotion."Jacques Le Goff
"Music is the universal language of emotion."Jacques Le Goff
"Music speaks to something deeper than language can reach."Margaret Mead
"Music speaks to the human soul in ways that reason alone cannot reach."Christopher Dawson
"Music is the universal language of human emotion."Marc Bloch
"Music is the language of the soul transcending words."Oswald Spengler