Roman Jakobson

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.