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 gives a soul to the universe."
Johann Tetens
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"Music is the language of the body's inner motion."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Music is the language of the emotions that words cannot express."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Music has the power to soothe the savage heart and elevate the spirit."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Music is mathematics translated into emotion and beauty."
Johann Tetens
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"Music speaks to something in us that exists beyond language."
Johann Tetens
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"Music affects us through the body's physical resonance, nothing mystical."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Music, like markets, emerges from the interaction of many independent creators."
Friedrich Hayek
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"Music speaks to the soul because it exists purely in perception."
George Berkeley
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"Music speaks to the body before it speaks to the mind."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Music is mathematics made sensible to the human ear."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Music is the language through which emotions find expression beyond the limits of words."
Johann Tetens
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"Music's power lies in its ability to bypass rational thought and move the soul directly."
Johann Tetens
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways that words cannot reach."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Music moves the human heart"
Giovanni Vico
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"Music is a language that speaks directly to the perceiving mind."
George Berkeley
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"Music embodies mathematical principles in sensible form."
George Berkeley
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul, expressing truths that reason cannot reach."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Music is the language the soul speaks when words fail it."
Johann Tetens
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"Music speaks to dimensions of experience that rational discourse cannot touch."
Johann Tetens
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"The soul without art and music is like a body without breath."
Giovanni Vico
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"Architecture is frozen music."
Johann Goethe
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"Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music."
Johann Goethe
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"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work."
Johann Herder
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"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument."
Johann Herder
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"Music speaks what cannot be expressed in words."
Johann Herder
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"Music elevates the soul and speaks to the heart."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Music is the language of emotion and understanding."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Without music, life would be an error."
Friedrich Schiller