Quotes About Language

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

The southerner talks music.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.