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 of angels."
Henry Fielding
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"Music soothes the troubled mind."
Henry Fielding
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"Music is the language of the heart that speaks to the soul."
George Sand
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"Music is the language of the angels."
Frances Burney
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"Music soothes the savage breast."
Frances Burney
"Music is the language of the spirit."
Daniel Defoe
"Music heals the wounded soul."
Daniel Defoe
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Laurence Sterne
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Laurence Sterne
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"Music speaks to the parts of us that words cannot reach."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Music is the language spoken before language itself existed."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Stendhal
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"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
George Sand
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"Music is the language of the angels."
Frances Burney
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"Music is the voice of the soul expressing what words cannot."
Henry Fielding
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"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
Stendhal
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"Music is the language of angels."
Frances Burney
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"Music speaks to that part of us that words can never reach."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Music is the language of the universal human experience."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The musician who understands the human heart moves audiences profoundly."
Henry Fielding
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"Music is the universal language that transcends all human divisions."
Henry Fielding
"Music is the language of the heart."
Eliza Haywood
"Music speaks where words fail."
Eliza Haywood
"Music is the language of the soul."
Aphra Behn
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Music connects us to our deepest selves."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The music of the spheres is drowned out by the noise of human ambition and desire."
Eliza Haywood
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"Music is the passion of my life."
Samuel Johnson
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"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"O gentle Orpheus! I am thine."
Percy Bysshe Shelley