Abstract Quote by Virgil Thomson

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

— Sarah Caldwell

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

— Shankar Mahadevan

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

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

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

— Elizabeth Smart

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

— Herbie Hancock

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to…

— Rafael Vinoly

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

— Mark Heard

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

— Virgil Thomson

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it…

— Jane Campion

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

— Eldar Djangirov