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 is the universal language of mankind."
Cosimo de Medici
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul."
Edward Wotton
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"A musical note, once played, becomes part of the eternal."
Edward Wotton
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"The musician understands what the poet merely describes."
Cosimo de Medici
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"The music of heaven cannot be heard by ears attuned to discord."
Girolamo Savonarola
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul."
Edward Wotton
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"The musician understands what the mathematician merely calculates."
Edward Wotton
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Cosimo de Medici
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"The music of the spheres echoes in the human heart that learns to listen."
Girolamo Savonarola
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"A melody that lifts the soul is worth more than a symphony that merely pleases the ear."
Girolamo Savonarola
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"Music is the language through which the universe speaks directly to the human heart."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"Every note of music contains within it the memory of all music that came before."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul."
Cosimo de Medici
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul, expressing what numbers cannot."
Edward Wotton
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"Music speaks the language that words cannot express."
Cosimo de Medici
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"Music is the universal language of the soul."
Giovan Battista della Porta
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"Music elevates the spirit beyond mortal limitations."
Giovan Battista della Porta
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"Music can elevate the soul or degrade it, depending on its nature and use."
Girolamo Savonarola
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"Music is the language of angels, understood by all hearts."
Matteo Ricci
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"Music has the power to heal wounds that words cannot touch."
Matteo Ricci
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"Music, like mathematics, reveals the hidden harmonies of nature."
Bernardino Telesio
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"Music has the power to heal the spirit and elevate the soul."
Paracelsus
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"Music is the voice of the cosmos expressing itself through human form."
Paracelsus
"Music is the language of the soul."
Juan Luis Vives
"Music bridges the gap between the divine and the earthly."
Juan Luis Vives
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"Music is the language of the heart."
Christine de Pizan
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"The music of creation plays in patterns we can learn to recognize."
Giovan Battista della Porta
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"The melody of life becomes clear only to the patient listener."
Giovan Battista della Porta
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"Music alone with sudden stroke can heal the rents made by vices in our souls."
Francesco Petrarch
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"The melody of life is composed of both triumph and sorrow."
Matteo Ricci