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.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

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

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.

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