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 all along was school and play."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Music speaks where words fail; it is the language of the soul."
Kate Chopin
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"Music is the mathematics of the heart."
Kate Chopin
"Music is the language of the soul."
Fannie Hurst
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"The pleasure we get from music comes from our identification with it."
Upton Sinclair
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"Music is the universal language of the soul."
O. Henry
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"The melody of life is played through our choices."
Jack London
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"Music expresses what the heart cannot say in words."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Music is the universal language of the heart."
Booth Tarkington
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"Music elevates the spirit when words fail."
Booth Tarkington
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"Music has the power to heal what words cannot reach."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Music is the universal language, and it speaks when words cannot."
O. Henry
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"Music can cure what words cannot."
O. Henry
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"Music spoke to her in a language that words could never express."
Kate Chopin
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Booth Tarkington
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways words never can."
Upton Sinclair
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"Music carries truths that words alone cannot express."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast."
O. Henry
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"The music of the soul is heard in silence."
Booth Tarkington
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Booth Tarkington
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Jack London
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"You are the music while the music lasts."
T.S. Eliot
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
T.S. Eliot
"Music speaks the language of the soul directly."
Sherwood Anderson
"Music heals what medicine cannot touch."
Sherwood Anderson
"The silence between the notes is what makes music beautiful."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance."
Ezra Pound
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"Music is mathematics in motion."
Gertrude Stein
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"Music is the language of the heart, understood by all who listen."
Booth Tarkington