Music Quotes

The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.

12643 quotes

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"Sound has the power to reorganize reality."
Arca
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"I'm obsessed with how sound can become a bodily experience."
Arca
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"Music is memory made tangible."
Arca
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"Music is the technology of transcendence."
Arca
"Sound and silence are not opposites; they are partners in creation."
Ryoji Ikeda
"Sound is the bridge between mind and matter."
Ryoji Ikeda
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"Music is the space between the notes, not the notes themselves."
Jon Hopkins
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"Every song tells a story if you listen closely enough."
Jon Hopkins
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"Silence is not the absence of sound; it is the presence of everything."
John Cage
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"Experience music not as entertainment, but as a way of being."
John Cage
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"The purpose of music is to change the person who listens to it."
John Cage
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"Life is an improvisation; we must learn to play our part well."
John Cage
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
James Blake
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
James Blake
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"Deep listening is a practice that opens us to the world around us in ways we never imagined."
Pauline Oliveros
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"When we truly listen, we become part of the music we hear."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Music is a way of organizing time, and time is the substance of life itself."
Pauline Oliveros
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"In the space between sounds lies the poetry of music."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Every sound vibrates at a frequency; we must learn to attune ourselves to the frequencies of meaning."
Pauline Oliveros
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"The only time I ever feel alive is when I'm performing."
Laurie Anderson
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"Music has the power to transcend language and connect us all."
Laurie Anderson
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"Music is the space between the notes, not the notes themselves"
Jon Hopkins
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"Rhythm is the heartbeat of consciousness"
Jon Hopkins
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"Music is the language of the soul speaking to itself"
Jon Hopkins
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"Sound is a physical force that can reshape matter and mind."
Arca
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"Every sound is a ghost of something that was."
Arca
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"We are all searching for the sound that will save us."
Arca
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"What a wonderful world it will be when we teach the sale of music instead of the sale of guns."
Yoko Ono
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"Music speaks the language that the heart understands."
Yoko Ono
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"Music is the universal language of emotion."
Yoko Ono