Quotes About Words

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

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.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

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

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

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.

Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.