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
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"Music articulates what words cannot express about human emotion."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Music is perhaps the last refuge for the human spirit."
Weil, Simone
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"Music speaks what words cannot express."
Weil, Simone
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"Music speaks what words cannot."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Music is mathematics made audible."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Music communicates what language cannot articulate, yet remains accessible to rational understanding."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Music is a language of its own, expressing what words can only approximate."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Music is the universal language that speaks to the human spirit."
Moore, George Edward
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"Music without emotion is merely mathematics."
Moore, George Edward
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"Music is the expression of the inexpressible."
Weil, Simone
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"Music speaks to what words cannot reach."
Moore, George Edward
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"Music articulates what words cannot reach."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Music speaks where words must be silent."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Music is the language the soul recognizes but cannot explain."
Weil, Simone
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"Music is the language of the soul, speaking where words cannot reach."
Moore, George Edward
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"Music has the power to move the soul in ways that words cannot express."
Moore, George Edward
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"Music expresses what words cannot; it is the language of the soul."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Music approaches what words can only gesture toward."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Music is language before language, wisdom before thought."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Music is the language of the unconscious."
Bataille, Georges
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"Music speaks what words can only approximate."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Music is the language closest to the divine."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Music carries ideological meaning."
Althusser, Louis
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"Music is language before language, truth before representation."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Music is the sound of the sacred attempting to break through language."
Bataille, Georges
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"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."
Lukács, György
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"Music expresses what cannot be said in words."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Music is the language of the soul under oppression."
Marcuse, Herbert