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 elevates the human spirit and connects us across differences."
Albert Bandura
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"In music and mathematics, we find the same eternal harmonies."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Music influences the emotional centers of the brain."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Music demonstrates the mathematical order of existence."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware it is counting."
René Descartes
"Music moves us because rhythm and melody activate ancient reinforcement pathways in our brain."
B.F. Skinner
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"Music is mathematics made audible, and mathematics is the language in which nature speaks."
Ivan Pavlov
"Music is organized sound and organized silence."
B.F. Skinner
"I use my music to speak what cannot be spoken in words alone."
Florence Nightingale
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"Music affects the brain through the same principles that govern all stimulus and response."
Ivan Pavlov
"Music moves us because it follows the same patterns that govern all human behavior."
B.F. Skinner
"Music and medicine both operate through harmony, rhythm, and balance."
Edward Jenner
"Music touches something in us that words cannot reach."
B.F. Skinner
"Music is mathematics made emotional."
B.F. Skinner
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"Music is the entrance antechamber to the spiritual realm."
Carl Jung
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"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought."
Carl Jung
"The music of the body is best understood by those who listen carefully to its rhythms."
Edward Jenner
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"Music is the language of the nervous system."
Humberto Maturana
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"Music and science speak to different parts of the human spirit."
James Watson
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"Music is the mathematics of emotion."
Humberto Maturana
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"Music and mathematics share a deep structural similarity that fascinates the brain."
Francis Crick
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"Music and mathematics speak the same language of harmony and pattern."
Francis Crick
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"Music and biology share common mathematical principles in their organization."
Francis Crick
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"Music, like mathematics, speaks a universal language understood by all humanity."
Lise Meitner
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"Music speaks to something deep in our evolutionary past – a legacy of our animal heritage."
Richard Dawkins
"Music speaks to the soul when words cannot."
George Washington Carver
"Music has the power to heal the broken spirit."
George Washington Carver
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Wright Brothers
"Mathematics is the music of reason, and logic is the rhythm by which machines dance."
Alan Turing
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"Music elevates the human spirit."
Wright Brothers