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 speaks because it allows us to experience constructs without words."
George Kelly
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"Music speaks to the emotional dimensions of personality that words cannot reach."
Raymond Cattell
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"Music is a language that speaks to the core of personality."
Robert McCrae
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"Music is the sound of personality made audible."
Robert McCrae
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"The most profound music is often the silence between the notes."
Costa Paul
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"Music is the mathematics of emotion, calculated perfectly in frequencies and feeling."
Costa Paul
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"Music has the power to touch our hearts and souls in ways that words cannot."
Gordon Allport
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"Music is the language of the soul; it speaks to us in ways that words cannot."
Gordon Allport
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"Music preference is a reliable indicator of personality and intelligence."
Hans Eysenck
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"Music therapy works because it bypasses personality defenses."
Hans Eysenck
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Rollo May
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"Music is the voice of the soul."
Rollo May
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"Music speaks what words cannot."
Alice Miller
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"The music of life is heard in moments of silence."
Robert McCrae
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"Music is the language of the ineffable."
Robert McCrae
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"Music directly accesses emotional centers in ways that rational argument cannot."
Raymond Cattell
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"The music we make internally resonates louder than any we create externally."
Costa Paul
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"Music is mathematics speaking in the language of emotion."
Costa Paul
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways that words alone cannot reach."
Gordon Allport
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"Music has the power to heal what words cannot touch."
Gordon Allport
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"Music speaks the unspeakable; it is the language of the unconscious."
Alice Miller
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"Music is the language of emotion."
James Clear
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"Music is the language emotion speaks before words arrive."
Costa Paul
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"Music speaks the truth that words can only approximate."
Costa Paul
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"Music speaks to the part of the brain that logic cannot reach."
Hans Eysenck
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"Music is mathematics made sensible to the ear."
Hans Eysenck
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"Music bypasses the intellectual defenses we build against truth."
Alice Miller
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"Music is the language of emotions that words betray."
Alice Miller
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"Music and mathematics reveal the same underlying harmony present in human consciousness."
Raymond Cattell
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"Music demonstrates that order and emotion are not opposites but can be perfectly united."
Raymond Cattell