Music Quotes

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

12643 quotes

"Music is the brandy of the damned."
Robertson Davies
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"Music is the language of the dead speaking to the living."
Seán Ó Faoláin
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Frank O'Connor
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Music has the power to heal."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Poetry is the music of the soul, and especially of great and isolated souls."
Sean O'Casey
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"Music is the universal language that requires no translation."
Sean O'Casey
"Music is the language that transcends words."
Douglas Coupland
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"Music is the universal language we've never managed to speak."
Margaret Atwood
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"Music is the language of the soul without words."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Music is a way of expressing feeling, of saying things that cannot be said with words."
Carson McCullers
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"Music is the language of the angels."
Margaret Atwood
"A life without music is a life half-lived."
Robertson Davies
"Music is the universal language."
Cormac McCarthy
"Music enters the soul."
Cormac McCarthy
"Music is frozen emotion."
Cormac McCarthy
"Music transcends all boundaries."
Cormac McCarthy
"Music reaches places in the soul that language cannot touch."
Carson McCullers
"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Carson McCullers
J
"Music has the power to express what words cannot articulate, reaching directly into the emotional core."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Music is the language of the soul"
Robertson Davies
"Music is the only language that bypasses the rational mind."
Cormac McCarthy
"The most important thing is to make music, not to become a musician."
Carson McCullers
"Without music life would be a blank to me."
Carson McCullers
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Carson McCullers
"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument."
Carson McCullers
J
"Music expresses what language fails to capture about the human condition."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"The best thing about music is that it makes you feel alive."
Saul Bellow
"Music is the language of souls who cannot speak."
Cormac McCarthy
"Music is perhaps the most intimate of all arts, for it enters the heart rather than the mind."
Carson McCullers