Words Quotes

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

~ Steven Wright

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

~ W. H. Auden

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

~ Michael Greger

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

~ Jeff Sessions

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

~ Jack Kemp

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

~ Bianca Jagger

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

~ E. Y. Harburg

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

~ Heather Watts

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

~ Joan Miró

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

~ Nas

Music comes to me more readily than words.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

~ Dolly Parton

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

~ Gustav Mahler

When words leave off, music begins.

~ Heinrich Heine

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

~ Agnes Obel

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

~ Steve Prefontaine

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

~ Marcel Marceau

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

~ Felix Mendelssohn

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

~ Truman Capote

The way you pronounce words the Puerto Rico way, it's not really global for music. Colombians speak some of the best Spanish in the world. So having a Colombian next to me every time I write makes my music more international.

~ Nicky Jam

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

~ Montserrat Caballe

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

~ Jim Diamond

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.

~ Felix Mendelssohn

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

~ Carrie Brownstein

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

~ Bryan Ferry

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

~ Aaron Copland

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

~ Aaron Copland

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

~ Charles Munch

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

~ Jean Philippe Rameau

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

~ Raquel Welch

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

~ Frederick William Faber

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

~ Sean Durkin

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.

~ Yehuda Berg

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

~ Daniel Hannan

Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In other words, I look for aliens, and when I tell people that at a cocktail party, they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face. I try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate.

~ Seth Shostak