White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of terminology that might make it easier to describe your ideas to the other guys in your band.
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
I have a very difficult time describing my music.
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.
Music is a language.
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
With guitar, I'd always mixed more sounds that occur in hip-hop, or occur on Crystal Method records, or occur at the zoo - so I've never been sort of tethered or have limited myself to the traditional rock n' roll vocabulary.
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
I feel that I speak the musical language.
I think music is another language.
There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
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.
I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.
