Music Quotes

The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.

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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Hugo Grotius
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"Music moves the soul."
Hugo Grotius
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"Music is mathematics rendered audible and beautiful."
Christian Wolff
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"Music is the language of the angels"
Jean Bodin
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"Music speaks to the deepest parts of our being"
Jean Bodin
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Hugo Grotius
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"Music is the universal language that unites all peoples."
Johann Herder
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"Music bypasses the intellect and speaks directly to the soul."
Johann Herder
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"Music, like all art, reflects the aspirations of its time."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The music of the soul cannot be heard by those with closed hearts."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Music is the universal language of the human soul."
Hugo Grotius
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"The sweetest music is the music of harmony between souls."
Hugo Grotius
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"Music has the power to move mountains of stone in the human heart."
Hugo Grotius
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"The spirit of an age is captured in its art and music."
Johann Herder
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"Music, like mathematics, reveals the harmonies of creation."
Jean Bodin
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"The melody of a nation's life is composed of the harmony of its laws."
Jean Bodin
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"Architecture is frozen music."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Music is mathematics made audible and beautiful."
Christian Wolff
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Johann Goethe
"Music is the language that transcends all human barriers."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Music reveals the harmony underlying existence."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"To understand a people, one must understand their songs."
Johann Herder
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"Music is the universal language that transcends all borders."
Johann Herder
"Music is the language of the soul's deepest yearnings."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Music is to the soul what gymnastics is to the body."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Music demonstrates how perfect order creates transcendent beauty."
Christian Wolff
"Music is the language that speaks directly to the human spirit."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music."
Johann Goethe
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"Music is the language of the heart."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach