Music Quotes

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

12643 quotes

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"La música es el lenguaje universal de las emociones."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"La música toca el corazón donde las palabras no pueden llegar."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"Music is the voice of emotions too deep for words."
Jorge Isaacs
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"Music connects the human heart to the infinite."
Jorge Isaacs
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"Music is the language the heart speaks when words fail."
Ciro Alegría
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"The song of the people is more powerful than the song of kings."
Ciro Alegría
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Music is the mathematics of the human heart."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Music speaks to the parts of us that reason cannot reach."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Every song carries a story of the people."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Music has the power to communicate across all cultural and linguistic boundaries."
Mario Vargas Llosa
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"Music speaks to something primal and eternal within us."
Mario Vargas Llosa
"Music is the language that transcends all human divisions."
José María Arguedas
"In poetry and music, the forbidden truths find expression."
José María Arguedas
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"The music of life plays in both the joyful and melancholic moments."
Jorge Isaacs
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"La música es la poesía del universo hecha audible."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"La música cura lo que las palabras no pueden alcanzar."
Tomás Carrasquilla
"The quena flute knows truths that philosophy cannot reach."
José María Arguedas
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"Music speaks the languages that words cannot reach."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Music is the language of those who have nothing else to say."
Fernando Vallejo
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"In the songs of indigenous peoples, we hear the voice of earth itself."
Ciro Alegría
"The music of Vivaldi never fails to move the soul."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"Music is what feelings sound like when they find their voice."
Jorge Isaacs
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"The music of the soul plays whether or not ears are listening."
Jorge Isaacs
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"Music is the language of those who cannot speak."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Music is the most honest expression of the human condition."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Music is the language of the oppressed"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Music is the language of the soul that words cannot express."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Music transcends the prison of language and speaks directly to being."
Ernesto Sabato