Composer Quote by Jane Campion

Good music is very close to primitive language.

— Denis Diderot

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

— Sarah Brightman

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

— Aristotle

Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the…

— Lucy Simon

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

— Elizabeth Smart

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

— Mark Heard

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

— Glenn Branca

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

— Imelda May

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

— Sun Ra

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy