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“Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.”

Believe Music Speech

Author:Debbie Harry

“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.”

Music Speech Ill Cures

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”

Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

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

Source: Miscellany

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

Heart Art Ends Literature Music Speech Music Is Playing Music Inspirational Music Power Of Music Art And Music Art Music Music Speaks Literature And Music

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“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.”

Humans May Music Communication Activity Speech Prepared Ancestor Flexibility Cognitive

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession