Common Quote by Dana Gioia

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

— Glenn Branca

Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

— Mason Cooley

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

— Les Claypool

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise…

— Felix Mendelssohn

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

— Jean Cocteau

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

— Herbert von Karajan

“Music is all about the intervals, and if the set of intervals within a scale is different - even though the scales share the…

— Nicolas Carter

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

— Anne Dudley

“Finally, we often hear some pitches or notes as being more important (or “central”) than others. These pitches tend to serve as points of…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.

— Hubert Selby, Jr