Music Quotes

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

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"Music is mathematics made audible; both reveal the structure of creation."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
"I am a musician by education and a musician by accident of birth."
William Herschel
"The universe is a symphony, and the astronomer is merely learning to hear its music."
William Herschel
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"In my calculations and observations, I found a kind of music—the mathematics of creation."
Caroline Herschel
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"Music and mathematics share a common language of harmony and proportion."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"The movements of the heavens are nothing but a continuous song for several voices."
Johannes Kepler
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Leonhard Euler
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"Music is the language of the universe."
Leonhard Euler
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"The music of mathematics is eternal."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Leibniz
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
Euclid
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"The universe is a symphony; mathematics is its notation."
Johannes Kepler
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"Music and mathematics are siblings; both speak the language of harmony."
Leonhard Euler
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"The harmonies in music are but mathematics made audible to human ears."
Leonhard Euler
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Music is the universal language of emotion."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The infinite series is the melody of mathematics."
Leonhard Euler
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
Johannes Kepler
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"The celestial motions are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, to be perceived by the intellect, not by the ear."
Johannes Kepler
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"In the harmony of the spheres, we hear the voice of mathematics."
Christiaan Huygens
"Mathematics is the music of silent reasoning."
Euclid
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
René Descartes
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"Music is mathematics made audible to the human soul."
René Descartes
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"The universe is a symphony, and mathematics is the score by which it is conducted."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"A beautiful melody reflects the mathematical proportions of the universe."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Music is mathematics made audible to the human ear."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"The music of the spheres teaches us that all things are interconnected."
Christiaan Huygens