Music Quotes

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

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"Without the discordant note, perfect concord is meaningless."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Music is the art of pure subjectivity."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The music of the spheres is heard only by those who cultivate the ear to listen."
Mill, John Stuart
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"The music that moves the soul is the music that speaks truths beyond words."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Existence without music would be an error."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Is there any better way of thawing out the cold in human hearts than music?"
Hume, David
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast."
Hume, David
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"Music is the voice of the infinite expressing itself in time."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The power of music lies in its ability to stir the deepest human emotions."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"All music is the expression of the mathematical harmony of creation."
Berkeley, George
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"Music is the joy of the soul."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Music speaks what words cannot."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Music speaks to the soul when words fail."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Music is the mathematics of the senses."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"In music, we find the voice of the Divine."
Maimonides
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"Music is the language of the angels."
Maimonides
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"Music is the art of the moving parts."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Music is a mathematical art whose proportions may be expressed in numbers."
Avicenna
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"The symphony of life requires all notes to be played."
Avicenna
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"The musician who plays with integrity offers a prayer to Heaven."
Maimonides
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"Music is mathematics made audible."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Music bridges the gap between matter and spirit."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Music is the only universal language understood by all mankind."
Hume, David
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Descartes, René
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"Music is the language of the soul when words fail."
Al-Ghazali
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"Music elevates the spirit when words cannot reach it."
Al-Ghazali
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"Music is the language of the celestial spheres, understood by all who listen with their hearts."
Avicenna
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"Music soothes the troubled spirit and elevates the soul."
Maimonides