If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Well-written words are music.
I've always said that music is like literature.