Music Quotes

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

12643 quotes

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"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Every age has its own art form, every age has its own music."
James Joyce
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"Music speaks to the soul in ways that words cannot."
Anne Brontë
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"Music expresses what words cannot contain or define."
Thomas Hardy
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"What a wonderful piano!"
George Eliot
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"Music is not an outward thing; it is a divine and spiritual creation."
George Eliot
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"The business of verse consists entirely in the variation of rhythm and melody."
William Butler Yeats
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
George Bernard Shaw
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"If we all listened to music, we should never have any argument and we should all live together in perfect harmony."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Music speaks when words fail."
Emily Brontë
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Thomas Hardy
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"Music is organized emotion given form."
Thomas Hardy
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"Music is the voice of the soul speaking to itself."
George Eliot
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast"
Charles Dickens
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"Music speaks to the heart where words fail."
Anne Brontë
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"Music is the universal language of emotion."
Anne Brontë
"Music is the language of the heart."
Émile Zola
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Music is the language of the soul when words fail."
Emily Brontë
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"Music is the language of the soul"
Charles Dickens
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"Music is the speech of angels."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
Victor Hugo
"Music speaks the language that words cannot reach."
Émile Zola
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Music reaches where words cannot."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said in words and that which cannot remain silent."
Victor Hugo
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"Music is to the soul what gymnastics is to the body."
Victor Hugo
"Music is the soul made audible; it transcends all language."
Gustave Flaubert