Music Quotes

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

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"The music of life is best heard in the spaces between the notes."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Music is mathematics translated into emotion."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Music is a form of universal language."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Music can convey an emotion that words cannot."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Music heals what logic cannot touch."
Smith, Barry
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"Music is mathematics made visible to the ear."
Smith, Barry
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"Music speaks to what language cannot reach in the human heart."
Smith, Barry
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"Music is mathematics expressing emotion."
Smith, Barry
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"Music is the language of the spirit."
Kaplan, David
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Kaplan, David
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Perry, John
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"Music heals what words cannot."
Perry, John
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"Music speaks to something in us that resists commodification and control."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Music speaks to the parts of us that language cannot reach."
Smith, Barry
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"Music has the power to unite us across all barriers of language and culture."
Smith, Barry
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Burge, Tyler
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Burge, Tyler
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"Music reveals the mathematics of the soul."
Kaplan, David
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"Music is the language that transcends all other languages."
Kaplan, David
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
Fine, Arthur
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"Music is the language spoken by those for whom words are inadequate."
Perry, John
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"Music bypasses the thinking mind and speaks directly to the soul's memory."
Perry, John
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"Music expresses what language cannot."
Fine, Kit
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"Music transcends the limits of language."
Fine, Kit
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"Music speaks the language that words cannot fully capture."
Burge, Tyler
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"Music doesn't seem to be a matter of intricate relationships, as the theory suggests. A single note is not less beautiful than a whole chord."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Music speaks because words have failed."
Fine, Arthur
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Lewis, David
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"Music gives a soul to the universe."
Lewis, David
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"Music expresses the inexpressible."
Geach, Peter