Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Famous Quotes / Claude Levi-Strauss

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Claude Levi-Strauss: "Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress."

Quotations about

Against	Although	Attributes	Capable
Comparable	Contradictory	Creator	Disciplines
Formulating	Gods	Holds	Immense
Intelligible	Itself	Language	Least
Majority	Mankind	Meaning	Minority
Music	Musical	Mystery	Once
People	Progress	Science	Since
Supreme	Tiny	Untranslatable	Various

Quotes by Power Quotations

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress. - Claude Levi-Strauss