Communication Quote by David Crystal

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits…

— David Byrne

“perfect pitch is much more common among people who speak a tonal language, such as Mandarin, Vietnamese, and several other Asian tongues, in which…

— Anders Ericsson

“Due allowance being made for the sounds of the language, writing aloud is not phonological but phonetic; its aim is not the clarity of…

— Roland Barthes

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

— Richard Wagner

“The lesson here is critical: The purpose of a pitch isn’t necessarily to move others immediately to adopt your idea. The purpose is to…

— Daniel H. Pink

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

— Anonymous

“Music psychology has been busy looking at the ways in which music might be similar to language, but Richman, Tannen, and others might be…

— Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

— John Patitucci

All language is an aspiration to music.

— Steve Almond

“In life, perfect pitch is the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.”

— Jodi Picoult

Music is the soul of language.

— Max Heindel