Acquisition-culture Quote by Richard Wright

“And so well did they hide themselves in their love that grass grew over their hearts and all their loud songs became indecipherable ribbons…

— Jesse Ball

Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

— Sarah Dessen

“They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth,…

— Karen Maitland

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“The balding headstones of the others—quarantined from their own mothers & sisters & daughters— I wondered if they, like us, were strange alloys of…

— Jennifer Givhan

“What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

— James Salter

“Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe…

— Tad Williams

“I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of…

— Marcel Proust

“Music is LIFE and the written word is our SOUL...”

— Madison Daniel

“It would then be found that the words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of 'singing' the world. The initial form of language,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Music always reminded him of the voice of God, for it needed no translation and could reach and renew the soul like very few…

— Trans-Siberian Orchestra

“..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some…

— Bob Dylan