Music Quotes

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

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"Music is mathematics made audible to the human heart."
Petronius
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Apuleius
"The music of the spheres is silence; all sound is merely its echo."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Music is the universal language of the soul."
Petronius
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"Music is organized sound with the power to organize the soul."
Petronius
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"Music, properly understood, is the mathematics of the soul made audible."
Porphyry
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"Music moves us because it speaks to the part of us that transcends language."
Porphyry
"The musician who plays without passion is merely making noise."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Juvenal
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"Music is the language of the gods."
Apuleius
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible."
Petronius
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"Music heals what words cannot touch."
Petronius
"Music is the mathematics of the soul."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Music transcends the boundaries of language."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Juvenal
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"Music speaks when words are insufficient."
Juvenal
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"Music is the audible expression of mathematical and cosmic harmony."
Porphyry
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"Music attuned to cosmic harmonies elevates the spirit toward divine truth."
Porphyry
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"Music is the poetry of the air."
Apuleius
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"Music is the universal language."
Martial
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"Music soothes the troubled mind."
Martial
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"Music is the language of the gods."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Music transcends all boundaries of culture and class."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Suetonius
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"Where words fail, music speaks."
Suetonius
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"Music is the mathematics of the gods."
Tacitus
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"Music is the language of the soul that words cannot reach."
Juvenal
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"Music heals what medicine cannot touch."
Martial
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"Music speaks the language of the soul."
Martial
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Livy