Facts Quote by Robert Fripp

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

— Matthew Bellamy

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Music expressed what words cannot.

— Avieh Concepcion

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.

— A. R. Rahman

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 is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

— Richard Wagner

Music speaks a language which raw words can not explain.

— Tshepo Koos Maluleke

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

— Roman Jakobson

All music has to speak in some form or other.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within,…

— Iannis Xenakis

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker