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.
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
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.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
BEAUTY...has its own language.. The 'expression' of a Spontaneous Fully Functioning Self.. If 'Spontaenity' is missing, start questioning the 'reality' of it..!
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
