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 is the mathematics of emotion."
François Mauriac
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"What is your taste in music?"
Henry James
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"Music is the language of the spirit freed from the body."
Herman Melville
"Music is the language of those who cannot speak."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Music is the voice of the soul that speech cannot reach."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge."
Romain Rolland
"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Romain Rolland
"Music elevates the human experience."
Romain Rolland
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Anatole France
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"Music speaks to the part of us that words cannot reach."
François Mauriac
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"Music is the universal language that speaks to what words cannot reach"
Henry James
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"Music soothes the soul in ways that medicine cannot"
Henry James
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The purpose of music is by its end to form the man or woman after God's own heart."
Marcel Proust
"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work."
Romain Rolland
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"Music is the language of the angels."
François Mauriac
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"Music is the language of the soul, and the soul is often incoherent."
Anatole France
"Music is the language of the universe; words are merely its accent."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Music is the only refuge from the cruelty of time."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Marcel Proust
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"Can one cry when listening to a song? Probably only if one is a human being."
Albert Camus
"Music is the passion of my life, and I cannot conceive of humanity without music."
Romain Rolland
"Music speaks what cannot be said in words; it transcends the limitations of language."
Romain Rolland
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"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Anatole France
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"Music is the language of the emotions."
Montesquieu
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"Music is the poetry of sound"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Music is the food of love, and love is the food of life."
Marcel Proust
"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Romain Rolland
"Music speaks where words are powerless."
Romain Rolland
"Music is the elevator of the soul towards the divine."
André Gide