Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Music is the soul of language.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

Music is a gift to all of us.

Music is nourishment.

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.