Music Quotes

The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.

12643 quotes

"The dance of passion and reason creates the music of the soul."
Charles Baudelaire
"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible to the ear."
Charles Baudelaire
P
"Music is the language of emotions transcendent."
Pierre Corneille
J
"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Jean Racine
J
"Music is the food of the soul."
Jean Racine
S
"Music should always speak for itself."
Stéphane Mallarmé
S
"The ultimate arrangement of syllables is music."
Stéphane Mallarmé
S
"Language fails where music begins."
Stéphane Mallarmé
P
"Music is the language through which the soul speaks to eternity."
Pierre Corneille
A
"Music is the language of those for whom words always fail."
Arthur Rimbaud
P
"Music is the language of the heart."
Paul Verlaine
P
"Music transcends all barriers of language and culture."
Paul Verlaine
P
"Music is the language of emotion made audible"
Pierre Corneille
"Music expresses that which cannot be said in words and that which cannot remain silent."
Charles Baudelaire
"Music is the mathematics of the soul expressing itself."
Charles Baudelaire
P
"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind, and heals the heart."
Paul Verlaine
M
"Music is the language of the soul that words cannot express."
Molière
G
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Gérard de Nerval
V
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
V
"Music has the power to heal the soul."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
T
"Music is the mathematics of the sense and mathematics is the music of the intellect"
Théophile Gautier
G
"Music is the language of the heart."
Guy de Maupassant
G
"Music is the divine language."
Guy de Maupassant
A
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
A
"Music gives a soul to the universe."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Music speaks directly to the heart without the intervention of reason."
Charles Baudelaire
"Dance can reveal all the mysteries that music hides."
Charles Baudelaire
P
"Music speaks what words cannot express, and silence completes what music begins."
Paul Verlaine
P
"The sound of silence speaks louder than any symphony."
Paul Verlaine
G
"In music, I hear the voice of God."
Gérard de Nerval