Known Quote by Charles Darwin

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

— Anonymous

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream

“Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think of language as our first music.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

— Gordon Getty

Music is a language.

— Youssou N'Dour

Music was a way for me to almost speak things into existence before they even happened and to build confidence.

— Darren Waller

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

— Victor Wooten

Music is a universal language beyond words

— Siva Pillay

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

— T Bone Burnett

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

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

— Robert Plant