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 transcends boundaries and creates spaces where transformation is possible."
Angela Davis
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"Music is the language of those who cannot speak."
Arundhati Roy
"Music brings people together for causes that matter."
Bill McKibben
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"Music brings people together for climate change."
James Hansen
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"Music unites us in common cause."
James Hansen
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"Music has the power to break through defenses that nothing else can penetrate."
Arundhati Roy
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"Music is the language that speaks to the parts of us that words cannot reach."
Arundhati Roy
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"Music and song have always been how movements survive and multiply."
Naomi Klein
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"Music and culture unite us around shared values."
James Hansen
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"The songs we sing and the stories we tell are the DNA of who we are."
Arundhati Roy
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"Music speaks what words cannot."
Arundhati Roy
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"Music is the soul of Africa."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Music speaks what words cannot."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Aimé Césaire
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"Music heals what words cannot."
Aimé Césaire
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"Music is the voice of nature; silence is the voice of the soul."
David Brower
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"Music speaks the universal language of the human heart."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Music transcends the boundaries of language and culture"
Edward Said
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"Music is the language of the soul"
Edward Said
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"Music is the language that transcends all boundaries of nation and race."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Music carries the soul of a people when words fail."
Aimé Césaire
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"Rhythm is the architecture of being, the inner dynamism that gives it form."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Music reveals the structure of reality itself."
Slavoj Žižek
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"A people's song is their history."
Aimé Césaire
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"The rhythm of Africa beats in our hearts, connecting us to our ancestors and the earth."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Music speaks to what rational discourse cannot express about the human condition."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Music reveals what words cannot express."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Music is the language of non-knowledge."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Music is the refuge of those who feel too much."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Music is thought made audible."
Gilles Deleuze