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