First place Quote by Anthony Seeger

“The Suyá reaction to my recording was one of the clearest statements I obtained about the importance of the different parts to the total…

— anthony seeger

“Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of 'singing' the world. The initial form of language,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it…

— John Hay

“In addition to reading and writing, we were expected to learn our history songs and ballads, although most of them had been altered and…

— D. Maria Trimble

“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.”

— Toba Beta

“The ostriches were like messengers who had learned their vital message by heart, but whose vocal chords had been slit by the enemy, so…

— Milan Kundera

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require…

— R. Scott Bakker

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of…

— Richard Wright

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

— Ambrose Bierce

[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda