“Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.” WorldLanguageAudienceMusicianBarriersLanguage Barriers Author:Tommy Chong
“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.” MayPlayOrderLanguageSoundPoorMusicMusicianNotesNeighborToneStringsMasteryConventionalNormViolinIntervalsRenderingViolinistDiscrete Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.” SpiritualSpiritSpeakLanguageMusicianMusic Speaks Author:John McLaughlin
“Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.” FirstsUseThreeLanguageFailingInfluenceCenturyKeysMusicianJazzCreatorSpreadDecadesMatureQuartersArmstrongQuarter Of A Century Author:Dan Morgenstern
“I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.” WayWantPlayTogetherGuyLanguageSoundRecordsPlayerMusicianStudiosWorking TogetherGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Jason Aldean
“To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying on that... there is some sort of inspiration there and you can't always put your finger on where it comes from. So, it's always been important for me to have my own thing and, even though I'm inspired by and influenced by many different musicians and styles of music, I was very determined early on to have my own thing. So when I sit down to write I don't necessarily have a particular narrative or message in mind. I'm interested in language and in words.” KnowsWritingMindImportantDifferentInspirationLanguageProcessMy OwnCreativeStyleParticularMessagesMusicianFingersInspiredDeterminedNarrativeSongwritingCreative ProcessIntriguingThought ProcessCreative Thought Author:Page Hamilton
“I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.” ThinkingWayMomentsFeelingsFallActorsLanguageStagePoetMusicianFalling In LoveScreensPainter Author:Cate Blanchett
“I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.” WayDoneLanguageHeroMusicianGuitarNovelistsMy Hero Author:Paul Reed Smith
“I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer, so I dance a little bit. I was a musician, so I do a little bit of music. And I do all of this in four or five different languages, and all over the world.” WorldLittlesDifferentLanguageBitsFiveFourTvsLittle BitMusicianTheaterVery GoodDancerGood PlaceDifferent Languages Author:Richard Sammel
“Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.” KnowsNeedsMatterPlayTogetherCultureLanguageExampleMusicianMusic IsUniversalDialectUniversal LanguageDifferentiation Author:Jerry Garcia
“You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.” IfsThinkingWholeLanguageSpaceReadyMusicianNotesNotionMusicalScalesSequenceSyntax Author:Jerry Garcia
“People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people speaking different languages and we could just be like, "You want to play that song? Yeah, okay." We would usually want to play Latin American songs, and they would usually want to play Santana or Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that. So we would trade off. So yeah, we were able to make a lot of friends that way and meet a lot of local musicians. It was a great experience.” PeopleDifferentSongLanguageLike YouMusicianMusic IsOkayTradeLatinLatin AmericaHendrixVery True Author:Jherek Bischoff
“Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for it not to be damaged in translation. But culturally, there are some interesting phenomena. I get the feeling that the way rock music gets described in Germany, it is all like Rolling Stone circa 1975, taken to the 10th power. If you're a rock musician, you're part of the counterculture. Your music is like a critique of everything that is wrong with America.” FeelingsLanguageInterestingTakenMusicianMusic IsBarriersTranslationsCritiqueSimplifyRock MusicRolling StonesSome Interesting Author:John Flansburgh
“Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic, lyrical language, and we're distilling stories down into their simplest form. We're both telling a story in two languages - word and music for them; and word and image for me.” ThinkingLanguageMusicianPoeticLyrical Author:Sally Lloyd-Jones
“Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you didn't sing in English, you really were limited: You could be successful in the country where people understood your language. The world of electronic music is completely international. You have DJs from Finland making huge records for people in New Zealand, DJs in South Korea making huge records for people in France. By the fact that it doesn't cost anything to make, and that it transcends language, nation it accidentally accomplishes a lot of really remarkable things.” PeopleWorldCountryLanguageSuccessfulMusicianMusic IsAccomplishBeing SuccessfulRemarkableElectronic Music Author:Moby
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” FeelingsLanguageEmotionMusicSpeechMusicianMusic IsPianoPlaying MusicInspirational MusicPower Of MusicMusic SoulFunny MusicWithout MusicAbove And BeyondWords And MusicMusic SpeaksMusic ArtistFun Music Book:Miscellany Source: Miscellany