Balanced Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

“Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears.…

— Moryah DeMott

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches…

— Don DeLillo

“There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say.…

— Gregory Maguire

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

— Aaron Copland

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

— John Coltrane

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

— Lillian Hellman

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

— Mary Oliver

Music is a defining element of character.

— Plato

I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in…

— Glenn Gould

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

— Felix Mendelssohn

“Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. ”

— Brian McLaren

I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with…

— Sophie