Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"Sound has the power to reorganize reality."Arca
"I'm obsessed with how sound can become a bodily experience."Arca
"Music is memory made tangible."Arca
"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
"Music is the space between the notes, not the notes themselves."Jon Hopkins
"Every song tells a story if you listen closely enough."Jon Hopkins
"Silence is not the absence of sound; it is the presence of everything."John Cage
"Experience music not as entertainment, but as a way of being."John Cage
"The purpose of music is to change the person who listens to it."John Cage
"Life is an improvisation; we must learn to play our part well."John Cage
"Music is the universal language of mankind."James Blake
"Without music, life would be a mistake."James Blake
"Deep listening is a practice that opens us to the world around us in ways we never imagined."Pauline Oliveros
"When we truly listen, we become part of the music we hear."Pauline Oliveros
"Music is a way of organizing time, and time is the substance of life itself."Pauline Oliveros
"In the space between sounds lies the poetry of music."Pauline Oliveros
"Every sound vibrates at a frequency; we must learn to attune ourselves to the frequencies of meaning."Pauline Oliveros
"The only time I ever feel alive is when I'm performing."Laurie Anderson
"Music has the power to transcend language and connect us all."Laurie Anderson
"Music is the space between the notes, not the notes themselves"Jon Hopkins
"Rhythm is the heartbeat of consciousness"Jon Hopkins
"Music is the language of the soul speaking to itself"Jon Hopkins
"Sound is a physical force that can reshape matter and mind."Arca
"Every sound is a ghost of something that was."Arca
"We are all searching for the sound that will save us."Arca
"What a wonderful world it will be when we teach the sale of music instead of the sale of guns."Yoko Ono
"Music speaks the language that the heart understands."Yoko Ono
"Music is the universal language of emotion."Yoko Ono