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 language of the gods."
Alcibiades
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"Music elevates the spirit to heights unknown."
Alcibiades
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"The music of a well-ordered state is the harmony of its citizens' virtue."
Lycurgus
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"The music of victory is sweetest when the cost is understood."
Scipio Africanus
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"Music soothes the warrior spirit and elevates the human condition."
Scipio Africanus
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"Music speaks where words cannot."
Solon
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"Music is the universal language of emotion."
Solon
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"Music soothes the savage breast, but it also makes the crowd compliant. I commissioned music constantly."
Tarquin the Proud
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"Music is mathematics made audible and emotion made tangible"
Romulus
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"A single song can contain more truth than a thousand speeches"
Romulus
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Miltiades
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"Music is the mathematics of the gods made manifest in human form."
Romulus
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"Music should train the body and refine the spirit."
Lycurgus
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"Music that stirs the emotions must also elevate the mind."
Lycurgus
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"Music and poetry are the languages of the soul; they teach what prose cannot."
Solon
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways that reason cannot reach; therefore it is essential to any state."
Alcibiades
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"Music is mathematics experiencing itself emotionally."
Alcibiades
"Music lifts the spirit when the body grows weary."
Leonidas I
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"The human voice is the organ of the soul."
Isocrates
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"Music moves the soul in ways that words cannot reach."
Alcibiades
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"Music is the language that transcends all boundaries."
Themistocles
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"Music is the poetry of sound."
Themistocles
"A melody can move the soul where words cannot."
Leonidas I
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"Music speaks to the soul when words cannot."
Philip II
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"Music speaks to the soul in languages that words cannot reach."
Isocrates
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
Demosthenes
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"The sound of music lifts the human spirit."
Themistocles
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"Remember always that the composer is the only one who hears his work performed exactly as he conceived it."
Pericles
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Demosthenes
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"Music soothes the savage beast."
Demosthenes