Against Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

— Kenneth Branagh

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

— Matthew Bellamy

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

— Elizabeth Smart

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people…

— Tyler Joseph

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

— Mark Heard

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization…

— Virgil Thomson

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

— Ken Hill

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

— Dan Reynolds