Dar Williams Quotes

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

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

Music is a language.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.