Quotes About Language

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

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

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Every language has its own music.