Firsts Quote by Sergei Prokofiev

I'm not much for formality.

— Gavin Creel

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

— Elizabeth Smart

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it,…

— Andrew Bird

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

— Ken Hill

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

— Sarah Caldwell

I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians,…

— Oliver Stone

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

— Victor Wooten

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

— Anton Webern

Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday…

— Tamas Vasary

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care about content;…

— Kathleen Hanna