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 most passionate and personal form of expression."
Denis Diderot
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"Music is the universal language of humanity."
Denis Diderot
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"Music moves us in rhythms that our hearts understand."
Marcel Proust
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"Music is the passion of my life."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Music expresses what words cannot capture about human experience."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Music is the passion of my life, and I believe I would be lost without it."
Denis Diderot
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"Music is the passion of my life, but I have pursued it only as an art."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"In truth, though, music is the only universal language."
Voltaire
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"Music is the language that speaks when words fail."
Albert Camus
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"The sweetest music is that which echoes from a lived experience."
Albert Camus
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"Music is the language of all mankind."
Denis Diderot
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"Music is the language of angels."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Music elevates the human spirit to realms beyond ordinary consciousness."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Music is the language of angels."
Pierre Corneille
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"Music soothes the troubled soul."
Pierre Corneille
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"Music is the language of the heart."
Jean Racine
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"Music transcends all barriers."
Jean Racine
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"Music is the art most nigh to tears and memory."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Music speaks the language of the infinite."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways that words never can."
Denis Diderot
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"Music speaks to the depths of the soul that words cannot reach."
Pierre Corneille
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"In music, we hear the harmony that should govern all human relations."
Pierre Corneille
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"Music speaks to the soul when words have failed us completely."
Jean Racine
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"All art aspires to the condition of music."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Music is one of the most forcible instruments for awakening an assembly."
Voltaire
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"Music is the universal language of mankind"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Music heals what words cannot reach"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Music is the art of the prophets."
Paul Verlaine
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"Music speaks where words cannot reach."
Paul Verlaine