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 language through which the soul speaks to the soul."
Pliny the Elder
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"The melody of life is heard not in single notes but in harmonious progression."
Pliny the Elder
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"The music of a well-ordered state is silence."
Diocletian
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"Music is the language of the gods."
Hadrian
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"Music soothes the troubled soul."
Hadrian
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"Music is mathematics made audible to the human heart."
Cato the Elder
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Cato the Younger
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"Music is the language of the gods and the solace of men."
Commodus
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"A life without music is a life half-lived."
Commodus
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"Music soothes the warrior's soul when words cannot."
Septimius Severus
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"The music of a well-governed state is harmony among its people."
Constantine I
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"Music demonstrates harmony; governance must achieve what music only suggests."
Constantine I
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"Music speaks to the soul of free men; chains can muffle it but never silence it."
Cato the Younger
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"In the music of a well-ordered society, each voice has its place."
Antoninus Pius
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"Music is the language the soul speaks when words fail it."
Antoninus Pius
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"Music has the power to move the human spirit"
Trajan
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"Music is the language of the gods"
Trajan
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"The music of life plays loudest in moments of triumph and tragedy alike."
Septimius Severus
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"Music soothes the savage breast, but only if there is a savage breast to soothe."
Domitian
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"Music has the power to unite what discord seeks to divide."
Antoninus Pius
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"A well-composed melody can heal what medicine cannot touch."
Antoninus Pius
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"Music is the language that transcends all barriers of nations and tongues."
Antoninus Pius
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"Music is mathematics made audible to the human heart."
Antoninus Pius
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"The harmony of music reflects the harmony of a well-ordered state."
Antoninus Pius
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"Music reaches the parts of the soul that reason cannot touch."
Antoninus Pius
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"Music echoes the symphony of power when I conduct it."
Commodus
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"Every note a musician plays is by my permission."
Commodus
"Music has the power to move mountains and hearts alike."
Vespasian
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"In music, I hear the voice of the gods."
Hadrian
"Music soothes the savage beast."
Nero