Music Quotes
The universal language. Musicians and listeners on why rhythm and melody move us like nothing else.
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"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting."Spinoza, Baruch
"Music is the language of the soul when words fail."Al-Ghazali
"Music is the recreation of the rational soul when it is tired from the pursuit of knowledge."Avicenna
"The harmony of music reflects the harmony of the universe."Locke, John
"Music is the poetry of the soul."Averroes
"Music is mathematics made audible; it reflects the harmony of creation."Maimonides
"Music is the pleasure which the human soul experiences from counting."Descartes, René
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."Avicenna
"Music is prayer without words, reaching places speech cannot touch."Al-Ghazali
"In music, the silence between notes is as important as the notes themselves."Al-Ghazali
"Music is the voice of the gods."Augustine of Hippo
"Music is the language of the soul."Augustine of Hippo
"Music is not merely entertainment; it is a pathway to understanding the cosmos."Averroes
"The harmony of the spheres teaches us that all things are interconnected."Averroes
"From my earliest youth I have made it the chief object of my life to study the voice and the instruments of music."Cicero
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."Augustine of Hippo
"Music is a mathematics of the soul, expressing what words cannot capture."Averroes
"The musician understands harmonies that the non-musician cannot even perceive."Averroes
"Music is the most divine of the arts."Thomas Aquinas
"The power of music moves the soul."Cicero
"Music demonstrates that mathematical ratios can produce transcendent emotional experience."Averroes
"The music of the spheres is not merely poetic metaphor, but a description of the mathematical harmony underlying reality."Averroes
"Music acts as a moral law, it gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination."Thomas Aquinas
"Music is the language of emotion."Mencius
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."Laozi
"In music, we hear the harmony of the universe."Mencius
"Music is the language of the spirit"Thales of Miletus
"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