Music Quotes

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

12643 quotes

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"The music of struggle sounds different to each of us."
Assata Shakur
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"The music of freedom is played by those willing to struggle."
Medgar Evers
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot reach."
H. Rap Brown
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"Music transcends the boundaries we create."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Music speaks what words cannot."
Assata Shakur
A
"Music carries the voice of the voiceless."
Assata Shakur
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"The music of our struggle echoes through generations."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Music is the voice of freedom."
Andrea Dworkin
S
"Music is a form of resistance."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Music moves what words cannot."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"Music that challenges is silenced; music that comforts oppression is promoted."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Music has always been a language of resistance and hope."
Angela Y. Davis
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"The song of freedom has been sung throughout history by the oppressed."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Music is the language of the gods."
Germaine Greer
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"Music speaks the language of the soul"
bell hooks
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"Music is a language that transcends words and barriers."
bell hooks
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"Music expresses what cannot be said in words; it is a form of revolutionary language."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Music of change is the soundtrack to our liberation struggle."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Music created by women often expresses what patriarchy forbids us to say."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Music is a language that speaks to the soul before the mind engages."
bell hooks
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Barbara Smith
B
"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Barbara Smith
b
"Music speaks the language of the spirit"
bell hooks
A
"Music is the voice of the voiceless."
Angela Davis
A
"Music has always been a vehicle for liberation."
Angela Davis
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"Music has always been a vehicle for expressing the deepest truths of human experience."
Angela Davis
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Barbara Smith
B
"Music is the language of the spirit when words fail."
Barbara Smith
"Music speaks to something deeper than words—our shared humanity."
Bill McKibben
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"Music has always been a vehicle for expressing what words alone cannot."
Angela Davis