Duty Quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

— Steven Feld

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more…

— Bono

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

— Gwenno

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

— Dave Matthews

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

— Anne Hathaway

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

— Gulzar

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”

— Iain McGilchrist

It's not the words but the music that counts.

— Benjamin Spock

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never…

— Lotte Lehmann

There's more to music than just words over tracks.

— Goldlink

A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen.

— Diljit Dosanjh