Music Quotes

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

12643 quotes

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"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Music is the language of the soul when words fail."
Al-Ghazali
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"Music is the recreation of the rational soul when it is tired from the pursuit of knowledge."
Avicenna
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"The harmony of music reflects the harmony of the universe."
Locke, John
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"Music is the poetry of the soul."
Averroes
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"Music is mathematics made audible; it reflects the harmony of creation."
Maimonides
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"Music is the pleasure which the human soul experiences from counting."
Descartes, René
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Avicenna
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"Music is prayer without words, reaching places speech cannot touch."
Al-Ghazali
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"In music, the silence between notes is as important as the notes themselves."
Al-Ghazali
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"Music is the voice of the gods."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Music is the language of the soul."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Music is not merely entertainment; it is a pathway to understanding the cosmos."
Averroes
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"The harmony of the spheres teaches us that all things are interconnected."
Averroes
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"From my earliest youth I have made it the chief object of my life to study the voice and the instruments of music."
Cicero
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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Music is a mathematics of the soul, expressing what words cannot capture."
Averroes
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"The musician understands harmonies that the non-musician cannot even perceive."
Averroes
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"Music is the most divine of the arts."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The power of music moves the soul."
Cicero
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"Music demonstrates that mathematical ratios can produce transcendent emotional experience."
Averroes
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"The music of the spheres is not merely poetic metaphor, but a description of the mathematical harmony underlying reality."
Averroes
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"Music acts as a moral law, it gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Music is the language of emotion."
Mencius
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
Laozi
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"In music, we hear the harmony of the universe."
Mencius
"Music is the language of the spirit"
Thales of Miletus
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"Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below."
Confucius
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
Laozi