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 what feelings sound like when they want to escape the body."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul made audible."
August Strindberg
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways words never can."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Music is the language of emotions that words cannot translate."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The music of language is where mathematics meets the soul."
Boris Pasternak
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"Music is mathematics made visible to the ear."
Boris Pasternak
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Music is the only language that does not lie."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Music speaks to the spirit when words fail."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Music is the language of angels."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Music lifts the spirit to heaven."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Music is the language of what cannot be spoken."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Music is the language of emotion."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Music soothes the troubled soul."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Music speaks where words must fail."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Music without emotion is mathematics; emotion without structure is chaos."
Boris Pasternak
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"The sound of a human voice is more powerful than all the instruments."
Maxim Gorky
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Music is the language of angels."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Music is the language of the heart."
Anton Chekhov
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"Music is the language of emotions we cannot articulate in any other tongue."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The musician hears what the deaf cannot imagine."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways that words never can."
Maxim Gorky
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"The rhythm of music echoes the rhythm of life itself."
Maxim Gorky
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways words cannot reach."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Music is the soul expressing what words betray."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Music is the language of the soul beyond words."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Music speaks what words cannot touch."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Music speaks to the soul in languages words cannot reach."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy