Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"Music is the language the angels speak."Jack Kerouac
"What music can pierce one's heart more deeply than words?"Hart Crane
"Music is the language of angels."Hart Crane
"Piano playing is a form of direct line to the soul."Kurt Vonnegut
"Music opens doors that words cannot open"Allen Ginsberg
"We are the music while the music lasts."Wallace Stevens
"Words are music; colors are melodies."Wallace Stevens
"The only truth is music."Jack Kerouac
"I wonder what it is that you are listening for in music."Marianne Moore
"The heart demands its own music."Hart Crane
"The melody of life plays on regardless of our listening."Hart Crane
"Music is the language of the soul."Hilda Doolittle
"Music transcends human limitation."Hilda Doolittle
"Sing loudly and without shame."Kurt Vonnegut
"The pleasure we get from music comes partly from the fact that the sounds assert themselves over time."Kurt Vonnegut
"I lie here thinking of music, of all the detail in music."William Carlos Williams
"Music is the universal language."William Carlos Williams
"The music of language is where meaning becomes music becomes meaning."Hart Crane
"Music is the only universal language."Allen Ginsberg
"Music vibrates at the frequency of the soul."Allen Ginsberg
"Music is mathematics made audible."Hilda Doolittle
"Music speaks when words fail us."Hilda Doolittle
"We are the music while the music lasts."Wallace Stevens
"The beat of your heart is the rhythm of the universe."Jack Kerouac
"A song is just a prayer that someone remembered to sing."Jack Kerouac
"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."Amy Lowell
"Music is the food of love."Amy Lowell
"Music and poetry speak to what words cannot fully capture."William Carlos Williams
"Music speaks what words cannot reach."Hilda Doolittle
"Music is the poetry of sound."Wallace Stevens