American english Quote by Lisa Ko

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the…

— Charles Ives

“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the…

— Yann Martel

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

— Daryl Davis

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

— Paul Oakenfold

I think music is another language.

— Dar Williams

Music is a language.

— Youssou N'Dour

I think of language as our first music.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,

— Abigail Washburn

Music is the soul of language.

— Max Heindel

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.

— Vidyasagar

“It is tempting to look upon England as a sort of musical Australia, an island culture inhabited by, and sustaining, its own insular fauna…

— Richard Taruskin

“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system,…

— Nicholas Ostler