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 moves the soul where words fail."
Oswald Spengler
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"Music is the language of the soul, understood across all cultures."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Music speaks to dimensions of our being that words cannot reach."
Jacques Le Goff
"Music is the language of emotion."
Fernand Braudel
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"Music speaks to the deepest part of us that language cannot reach."
Oswald Spengler
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"Music and poetry speak to truths that prose cannot express."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Music is the universal language of emotion."
Margaret Mead
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"Music moves the parts that words cannot reach."
Margaret Mead
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Michel Crouzet
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"Music is the universal language that bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the soul."
Arnold Toynbee
"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Eric Hobsbawm
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"Music expresses the deepest realities that words cannot articulate."
Christopher Dawson
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"To understand medieval music is to understand how sound itself organized society and consciousness."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Music is the language that words cannot express."
Maurice Natanson
"Music expresses what language cannot fully articulate."
Eric Hobsbawm
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"Music is the mathematics of emotion."
Michel Crouzet
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"Music connects what words can only approximate."
Michel Crouzet
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"Music is a universal language that transcends words."
Peter Berger
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"Music speaks to what words cannot contain."
Philip Rieff
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"Music is the language of the soul speaking to itself."
Philip Rieff
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"Music expresses what words cannot."
David Riesman
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"Music unites what speech divides."
David Riesman
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"Music speaks to us in ways that language cannot, touching something deeper than words."
Maurice Natanson
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"The music in a moment is audible only to those who have learned to listen."
Maurice Natanson
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Music transcends the barriers of language."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Music expresses what words cannot."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Music is the manifestation of the human spirit."
Ernst Bloch
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Ernst Bloch
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"Music is the voice of hope speaking in the language of feeling."
Ernst Bloch