Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"The harmonies of music reveal universal truths."Moore, George Edward
"Music articulates what words cannot express about human emotion."Austin, John Langshaw
"Music is perhaps the last refuge for the human spirit."Weil, Simone
"Music speaks what words cannot express."Weil, Simone
"Music speaks what words cannot."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Music is mathematics made audible."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Music communicates what language cannot articulate, yet remains accessible to rational understanding."Strawson, Peter Frederick
"Music is a language of its own, expressing what words can only approximate."Strawson, Peter Frederick
"Music is the universal language that speaks to the human spirit."Moore, George Edward
"Music without emotion is merely mathematics."Moore, George Edward
"Music is the expression of the inexpressible."Weil, Simone
"Music speaks to what words cannot reach."Moore, George Edward
"Music articulates what words cannot reach."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Music speaks where words must be silent."Blanchot, Maurice
"Music is the language the soul recognizes but cannot explain."Weil, Simone
"Music is the language of the soul, speaking where words cannot reach."Moore, George Edward
"Music has the power to move the soul in ways that words cannot express."Moore, George Edward
"Music expresses what words cannot; it is the language of the soul."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Music approaches what words can only gesture toward."Blanchot, Maurice
"Music is language before language, wisdom before thought."Blanchot, Maurice
"Music is the language of the unconscious."Bataille, Georges
"Music speaks what words can only approximate."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Music is the language closest to the divine."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Music carries ideological meaning."Althusser, Louis
"Music is language before language, truth before representation."Blanchot, Maurice
"Music is the sound of the sacred attempting to break through language."Bataille, Georges
"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."Gramsci, Antonio
"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."Lukács, György
"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."Marcuse, Herbert
"Music is the language of the soul under oppression."Marcuse, Herbert