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 the soul."
Popper, Karl
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"Music speaks what cannot be spoken."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Music embodies the infinite."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Music is the most concrete of the arts."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Music communicates what words cannot; it is the direct expression of inner feeling."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The synthesis of feeling is melody; the synthesis of action is plot."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Music, like the arts generally, is not yet sufficiently valued in our education."
Spencer, Herbert
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"To a man with an ear for music, nothing within the four walls of his chamber is lonely."
James, William
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"Music is the speech of angels."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Music expresses dimensions of human experience that words cannot reach."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Music expresses what words cannot contain."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Music reveals dimensions of human feeling beyond words."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Music is the language of emotion."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Music expresses the harmony of the human soul."
Comte, Auguste
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"Music is a religion more universal than any church."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Music is the language of the emotions."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Music is the passion of my life, but I have chosen the life of work."
Marx, Karl
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"Music demonstrates that order and beauty can arise from mathematical relationships."
Comte, Auguste
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"Music connects us to dimensions of meaning beyond words."
Comte, Auguste
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"Music and mathematics reveal the profound harmony underlying reality."
Comte, Auguste
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"Music speaks the language of the soul that words cannot reach."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Music unites what language divides and silence conceals."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Music is the language of emotion that words can never fully capture."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Music is the most romantic of all the arts."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Music expresses what words cannot capture about human experience."
Marx, Karl
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"Music is the language of the gods."
Kant, Immanuel