Charming Quote by Charles Darwin

Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are…

— Oliver Sacks

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

— Anonymous

“Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of…

— Karen Blixen

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

— Shura

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

— Peter R. Grant

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search…

— Khalil Gibran

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

— Debbie Harry

When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably…

— Charles Darwin

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring…

— Bruno Walter

“that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea…

— Lao Tzu