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 heart speaks when words fail."
Edith Wharton
"Music is the language of the soul, speaking truth that words cannot express."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Music speaks to something deep within us that transcends language."
Louisa May Alcott
"Music speaks to the soul in ways words never can."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Music speaks to parts of us that logic cannot reach."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Music can express what words fail to capture."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot."
Louisa May Alcott
"Music stirs the human soul in ways that reason alone cannot touch."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The musician builds on the universal foundation of mathematics and science."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Music is the language of the heart, speaking what words cannot express."
Washington Irving
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"Music, like love, knows no reason and seeks no justification for its powerful hold on the heart."
Washington Irving
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Music speaks to the soul in languages reason cannot comprehend."
Edgar Allan Poe
"I hear America singing."
Walt Whitman
"I hear the trained soprano singing in the theatre."
Walt Whitman
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"The rhythm of the heart is the drum of the universe."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Music is the expression of the infinite."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Music is the spirit made audible to hungry ears."
Emily Dickinson
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"Music is mathematics that feels."
Emily Dickinson
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"Music is the universal language; it needs no interpretation, for all hearts understand it."
Washington Irving
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
Mark Twain
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible."
Herman Melville
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"Music soothes the savage beast that dwells in every human heart."
Herman Melville
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"Split the Lark and you'll find the Music."
Emily Dickinson
"Music is the universal language."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Music soothes the soul."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
François Mauriac
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"Music is the language of the soul, beyond all words."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Music is the only language that does not lie."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Music reaches those places in us that language cannot touch."
François Mauriac