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, understood by all hearts."
Xenophanes
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"In the music of the spheres, every soul has its own unique note."
Pindar
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"The melody of life is composed of both sorrow and joy."
Aesop
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"The musician must feel the silence between the notes."
Aesop
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"Music is the language of the universe."
Anaximander
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"Music is mathematics in motion."
Anaximander
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Aristophanes
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"Music expresses what cannot be put into words."
Aristophanes
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"The lyre speaks what words cannot; music is the language of the soul."
Sappho
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"The gods granted us music so we might survive our own hearts."
Sappho
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"The lyre cannot be silent; it speaks whether or not we wish it to."
Sappho
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"The god of music is near those who make the sweetest sounds."
Euripides
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"The musician who plays without feeling merely produces noise."
Xenophanes
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"Music speaks to the soul in languages that words can never reach."
Xenophanes
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"Music is the instrument of all perfections."
Sophocles
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm to life."
Aristophanes
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul, made audible to mortal ears."
Anaximenes
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"In music, the soul finds its voice"
Empedocles
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"Music is the language of the gods."
Euripides
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"Music reveals the mathematical harmony hidden beneath the chaos of the world."
Empedocles
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"Music has the power to calm the savage breast and elevate the noble mind."
Aristophanes
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Frankie Boyle
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"Music is therapy for the troubled soul."
Frankie Boyle
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"The harmony of the spheres speaks to those trained to hear its song."
Anaximander
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"Music is the language of the gods and the comfort of the suffering."
Euripides
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"Music can heal wounds that medicine cannot touch."
Euripides
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"The music of life plays for those who listen closely."
Frankie Boyle
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"Music is not merely sound; it is the harmony of all things made audible."
Empedocles
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"The musician who merely reproduces the work of another is not an artist but an echo."
Empedocles
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible."
Democritus