Break Quote by Julie Taymor

Music is a dialogue.

— Alex Van Halen

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

— Frankie Ballard

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be…

— Santigold

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

— Sam Shepard

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

— Mark Heard

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Dan Reynolds

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through…

— Zoya Akhtar

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other…

— Ryan Adams

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

— Woody Guthrie

As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing…

— Stanley Nelson Jr