Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"Music speaks of what words can only approximate."Ernst Bloch
"Music that truly moves us often does so because it remembers what the system would have us forget."Herbert Marcuse
"Music speaks because it embodies the not-yet-expressed."Ernst Bloch
"Music is organized hope."Ernst Bloch
"Music captures dimensions of human experience that rational discourse cannot reach."Lucien Goldmann
"Music reveals truths about human longing that philosophy can only approximate."Lucien Goldmann
"Music can express what words cannot capture about resistance."Herbert Marcuse
"Music is the revealing of the nature of sound itself."Martin Heidegger
"Rhythm is the organizing principle of both music and life."Siegfried Kracauer
"Music speaks to the not-yet-conscious in us, the part still becoming aware of itself."Ernst Bloch
"Music is the invisible architecture of the soul."Martin Heidegger
"Music is perhaps the purest expression of consciousness encountering itself."Edmund Husserl
"Music expresses what language cannot say."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Music is a language without words."Paul Feyerabend
"Music expresses what words cannot."Paul Feyerabend
"Music speaks to the soul in ways language cannot."Noam Chomsky
"The power of music transcends cultural boundaries."Noam Chomsky
"Music is mathematics made audible and emotional."Alfred North Whitehead
"Music is a language understood by all humanity."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The music of thought is only heard when we silence the noise of orthodoxy."Paul Feyerabend
"Music is the language of the soul, but mathematics is the grammar."Karl Popper
"Music expresses what words cannot convey."Ludwig von Mises
"Music has the power to transform human consciousness."Ludwig von Mises
"Music speaks to universal human experiences without translation."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Music is the language of the soul."Jérémie Bentham
"Music is a universal language that transcends cultural boundaries."Karl Popper
"Music is the language that transcends all cultural boundaries."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Music is the universal language of mankind."Antonio Genovesi
"Music soothes the troubled spirit."Antonio Genovesi
"Music is the universal language of mankind."Johann Tetens