What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language. — Ernest Klein Copy Share Image
“What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.” — James Salter Copy Share Image
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Segovia, Yusef Lateef, Yo-Yo Ma. But no singers. Music without words let him fill his head with images of his own making… — Joe Ide Copy Share Image
I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing hard for people to comprehend in Kalpop. Kalpop is music and the rhythm of the world. Music has words.… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture… — El-P Copy Share Image
One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words,… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Music is more than words. It's a visual experience, too, and people really feel my music because of the way I move… — Stromae Copy Share Image
But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
