Music Quotes

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

12643 quotes

"Music speaks where words have abandoned us."
Aphra Behn
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"The music of nature surpasses all human composition."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Silence more musical than any song."
Christina Rossetti
P
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Music is the food of love, the remedy for all sorrows."
Aphra Behn
"In music, we find the universal language of emotion."
Aphra Behn
"Silence more musical than any song."
Christina Rossetti
"The music of the heart knows no earthly tongue."
Christina Rossetti
P
"Music is the language of spirits; it lifts us to the higher realms."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The human voice is the most natural and powerful instrument of expression."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
P
"Music bypasses the intellect to touch the deepest parts of our being."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The music of the soul requires no instruments."
Aphra Behn
M
"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot reach."
Eliza Haywood
"Music is the language of angels speaking to earthly ears."
Christina Rossetti
"In every life there is a melody waiting to be heard."
Christina Rossetti
S
"A musical education is a more powerful instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."
Samuel Johnson
P
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Music is the poetry of sound and the voice of the spirit."
Christina Rossetti
"Music has the power to transcend language and touch the universal soul."
Christina Rossetti
A
"Music that gentlier on the spirit lies than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A
"Sing the old songs"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Music is life expressed in sound."
Robert Browning
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"Music is the language of God."
Knut Hamsun
J
"Where words fail, music speaks."
Johan Christian Andersen
J
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Johan Christian Andersen
J
"Music heals the wounded spirit."
Johan Christian Andersen
D
"What sweeter music can we bring than a carol, for to sing here in this place so fair?"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti