Caring Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki

“Oratory is the highest form of music”

— Agona Apell

Good music is very close to primitive language.

— Denis Diderot

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

— Charles de Lint

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music comes to me more readily than words.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it…

— Jane Campion

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

— Chuck Mangione

I've never known how to read music in my life.

— Ronnie Montrose

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

— Barbra Streisand

I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the relationship to…

— Laura van den Berg

Music is a universal language beyond words

— Siva Pillay

I've noticed that when I write I tend to have slightly poppier melodies.

— Jen Ledger