Boundaries Quote by Jussi Lehtisalo

I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our songs. When…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking.…

— Susanne K. Langer

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

— Stevie Wonder

A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

— Verite

“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal…

— Ellen J. Barrier

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain…

— Brian Eno

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the…

— 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

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

— Matthew Bellamy

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection…

— John Dewey

Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully…

— Paul Auster

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by…

— Claude Levi-Strauss