Felt Quote by Rosanne Cash

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

— Patti Smith

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

— Kelsea Ballerini

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I…

— June Jordan

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

— Mat Kearney

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

— Condola Rashad

I feel that I speak the musical language.

— Marsha Norman

Music was language in our house. It was air…I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and…

— Renee Fleming

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

— Nitin Sawhney

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is…

— John Swihart

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and…

— Tycho