Music Quote by Ellen Klages

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and…

— Christoph Wolff

“...Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual activity of…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

“Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness,…

— Plato

“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Music is a melody of words that gets into your soul”

— Fiona MacKie

“There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say.…

— Gregory Maguire