Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"Music, like mathematics, expresses the underlying harmony of creation."Moses Mendelssohn
"The music of the spheres finds its expression in mathematical harmony."Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"Music is the language of the soul when words prove insufficient."Moses Mendelssohn
"Music is the language of those emotions that words cannot capture."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Music is the passion of my life, but mathematics is its architecture."Jean d'Alembert
"Music is the universal language of the soul."Jean d'Alembert
"Music is the language that speaks directly to the soul."Jean d'Alembert
"Music is reason transformed into sensation."Moses Mendelssohn
"Music demonstrates that abstract beauty is not impossible."Moses Mendelssohn
"Music is the language of emotion refined; it speaks to the heart in ways that words cannot."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Music is the language of all mankind."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"Music speaks to the soul because it operates through natural harmonies, not through doctrine."Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"Music is the quickest language for expressing our inmost feelings and thoughts."Jean d'Alembert
"Music demonstrates that order and harmony can emerge from carefully arranged sensations."Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Music has the power to touch the soul in ways that words cannot."Émilie du Châtelet
"Music has the power to soothe the savage breast."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Music is the universal language of emotion."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot."Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"Music is the universal language of mankind."Catherine de Medici
"Music gives a soul to the universe."Catherine de Medici
"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot."Isabella d'Este
"Music is the passion of my life, but I have given it up for mathematics."Jean d'Alembert
"Through music, the soul learns to love."Marsilio Ficino
"Music is the food of love."Marsilio Ficino
"Music speaks what words cannot express."Poliziano Angelo
"Music is the voice of the soul made audible."Poliziano Angelo
"Music arranges the elements of the soul into harmony; it is mathematics made audible."Émilie du Châtelet
"Music reflects the harmony of creation."Pico della Mirandola
"Music is the universal language of the soul."Giambattista della Porta
"Music elevates the human spirit."Giambattista della Porta