#vocabulary

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses! ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

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As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. ↗

— Adrian Belew

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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. ↗

— Fred Frith

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Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. ↗

— Lee Konitz

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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. ↗

— James Merrill

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I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

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Sound is the vocabulary of nature. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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