Musical Language Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth… — Stephen King
What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language. — Michael Ondaatje
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor — Max von Sydow
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit… — Branford Marsalis
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly,… — Claude Debussy
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more… — Howard S. Becker
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words… — Elfriede Jelinek
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical… — Michael Tilson Thomas
I feel that I speak the musical language. — Marsha Norman

Who Wrote These Musical Language Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Musical Language Quotes as follows: