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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

— Elfriede Jelinek

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

— Kenneth Branagh

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

— Marilyn Hacker

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

— Tyler Joseph

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

— Ken Hill

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

— Helen Vendler

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

— Zedd

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

— Virgil Thomson