Music Quotes

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

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"Music is the language of angels."
Geach, Peter
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"Music is mathematics in motion, revealing the structure of emotion."
Fine, Arthur
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"Music speaks what words cannot capture."
Lewis, David
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"Music is pure mathematics translated into emotion."
Lewis, David
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"Music is the mathematical poetry of the universe."
Fine, Arthur
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"Music is the mathematics of the heart."
Fine, Arthur
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"Music is the mathematics of the soul."
Fine, Kit
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"Every song is a meditation on the ineffable made audible."
Fine, Kit
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"Music speaks the language that words cannot reach."
Fine, Kit
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"Music is the language our hearts speak when words fail."
Lewis, David
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"Music touches parts of us that language cannot reach."
Lewis, David
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"Music is the language the universe speaks to itself."
Lewis, David
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"Music expresses what words cannot convey."
Ryle, Gilbert
"The music of ideas resonates differently in different ears."
Feyerabend, Paul
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"Music is the bridge between the physical and spiritual realms."
Bohm, David
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"I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"Music is the language of the soul; mathematics is the language of the universe."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"I go along with the regularity of semitones and for variety I go up to the fifth."
Bohr, Niels
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"Music is the language of the universe."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats."
Einstein, Albert
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"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition."
Einstein, Albert
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"Music's structure is fundamentally mathematical."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"To understand music, one must understand mathematics."
Hilbert, David
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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician."
Einstein, Albert
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"The music of the spheres resonates in the equations we discover."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Music and mathematics speak the same universal language."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Rhythm is the response to the demand for a pattern in what is apprehended."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Numbers are the notes in the symphony of the universe."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Mathematical objects are more like melodies than monuments."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, as is mathematics the hidden music of reason."
Weyl, Hermann