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
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"Music that truly moves us often does so because it remembers what the system would have us forget."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Music speaks because it embodies the not-yet-expressed."
Ernst Bloch
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"Music is organized hope."
Ernst Bloch
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"Music captures dimensions of human experience that rational discourse cannot reach."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Music reveals truths about human longing that philosophy can only approximate."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Music can express what words cannot capture about resistance."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Music is the revealing of the nature of sound itself."
Martin Heidegger
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"Rhythm is the organizing principle of both music and life."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Music speaks to the not-yet-conscious in us, the part still becoming aware of itself."
Ernst Bloch
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"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
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"Music is a language without words."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Music expresses what words cannot."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways language cannot."
Noam Chomsky
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"The power of music transcends cultural boundaries."
Noam Chomsky
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"Music is mathematics made audible and emotional."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Music is a language understood by all humanity."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"The music of thought is only heard when we silence the noise of orthodoxy."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Music is the language of the soul, but mathematics is the grammar."
Karl Popper
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"Music expresses what words cannot convey."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Music has the power to transform human consciousness."
Ludwig von Mises
"Music speaks to universal human experiences without translation."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Music is a universal language that transcends cultural boundaries."
Karl Popper
"Music is the language that transcends all cultural boundaries."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Music soothes the troubled spirit."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Johann Tetens