Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.
There is no 'cat language. ' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!
Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
In language clarity is everything.
We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.