Eduard Hanslick quote: "Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

Nothing speaks to my spirit like music does...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, ...
LEONARD SLATKIN

If we lived in a world before this one, without human bodies, only with our souls, the language we s...
ROSA M. BETANCES

Where words fail, music speaks.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Where words fail, music speaks.
HANS ANDERSEN

There was no quality, no sound integrity. It was good for broadcasting political rallies or football...
BUDDY CAGE

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it eve...
FRANZ LISZT

But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't ev...
JANE SEYMOUR

Heart speaks loud, yet creates no sound.
BRADLEY B. DALINA

When words fail music speaks.
IRENA HUANG

I don't personally know Michael Angelo or his music, but regarding contests and who is faster or wha...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wo...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.
ERIC CHURCH

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without th...
THOMAS MERTON

We are not really worried if anything happens for us. We want to have an album out that we like and ...
ALEJANDRO ROSSO

Certainly with the radio now, a lot of late 20s, 30s and 40-year-olds don't listen to that music. Th...
RICK SPRINGFIELD

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells...
FAITH HILL

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
TRAVIS SCOTT

Just as my fingers on the keys / Make music, so the selfsame sounds / On my spirit make a music, too...
WALLACE STEVENS

Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music sp...
STEPHEN MARLEY

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions...
ADLAI STEVENSON

I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for wha...
STEVIE WONDER

The fool speaks when he has nothing to say.
VIKRANT PARSAI

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has b...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
ALEXANDER HANSON

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fie...
YOKO ONO

Our new name more accurately speaks to our emphasis on delivering unique combinations of advanced te...
CHUCK SAFFELL

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel...
SUN TZU

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Joy is in the ears that hear, not the mouth that speaks.
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON

Oftentimes, musicians can play notes accurately, but they don't play music with the notes. I could s...
GLEN KWOK

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a...
TEDDY THOMPSON

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, alt...
HERBIE HANCOCK

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
HERB ALPERT

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet la...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say
VOLTAIRE

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions o...
JOHN MILTON CAGE

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
ANDREA DWORKIN

No kind of music is CSN or CSNY; it's just what we do as a band. There is no accepted CSNY sound. It...
GRAHAM NASH

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest....
NATE RUESS

It's music to inspire children to feel the music, in melody and in rhythm. We want to inspire childr...
AUDREY MUELLER

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at...
GEORGES BATAILLE

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
SIMON CALLOW

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laugh...
SYLVIA EARLE

Of course, I can play all the instruments but the sound coming out of it may not sound like music to...
ROHAN SINGH NEGI

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the min...
ANDRAE CROUCH

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
EURIPIDES

When the Final Word speaks even the deafs hear
AYODAPO OYELANA

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...
NAS

The son is the national music of Cuba. It has three characteristics that are found in most of the Cu...
CHUCK ARCHARD

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.
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CRAIG RAINE

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks, It r...
PHILIP MASSINGER

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s i...
KEITH RICHARDS

What you do speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you say.
GUS FREROTTE

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nai...
LAURA BENANTI

As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forwar...
MILAN KUNDERA

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sound...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to...
DR. DRE

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories ...
GEORGE JONES

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes...
PLATO

This band really speaks to college kids and the response for them is overwhelming. They were what we...
JOE ARMENIA

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. ...
BECK

Music has often been compared with language itself, and the comparison is quite legitimate. While it...
SIGMUND SPAETH

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
CAM GIGANDET

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of t...
DHAMMAPADA

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of t...
JOHN DEWEY

It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.
MARKUS ZUSAK

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisp...
SHANNON L. ALDER

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between...
BUN E. CARLOS

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has b...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

We were backpacking in the backcountry. We covered several hundred miles. Did a lot of off-trail stu...
NAT KEEFE

We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO

The level of activity speaks for itself. Ours is the only offer on the table.
MIKE MARTIN

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on...
TORU TAKEMITSU

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there
THOMAS MIDDLETON

The Sound of Music.
JACK NICHOLSON

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

The sound is throughout the park, and you can hear music a block away.
ARLENE ROSENTHAL

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that com...
SHAWN AMOS

The music is very beautiful, but when people hear it they experience emotions and a meaning that goe...
LAURA FREID

And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.
JAMES BEATTIE

You may not like what it says but the blood speaks
SOTONYE ANGA

Mankind has been creating beautiful music for many centuries. What we call early music tends to be v...
MARY JOHNSON

He brought electronic music to the masses and changed the way we hear music. He's like an Einstein o...
CHARLES CARLINI

We're looking to sign artists who make great hit music that can have mass appeal regardless of genre...
MATT FARBER

Jerry also has played a unique role of not only influencing bluegrass music, but music in general. H...
DAN HAYS

MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM

Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC

We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC

As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC

He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance.
JOSEPH MUCHEMI

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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