Along Quote by E. L. Doctorow

“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

I look at melody as rhythm.

— Charlie Parker

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

— Zach Condon

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

— David Almond

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

— George Crumb

Music causes us to think eloquently.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

— Francoise Sagan

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day…

— Nathan Englander

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for…

— Zach Condon

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making…

— Philip K. Dick

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in…

— Shane McCrae

“We are hardwired to hear and make music. Yes, we will sigh with pleasure when we hear a favorite theme played by an orchestra,…

— Robert Greenberg