George Crumb

"Language is one-dimensional. In a room with people talking you can't follow four conversations at once, which is not to say there aren't expressive dimensions in language. In music you have many more dimensions, tiers of the voice.  It is incredible that someone invented this multi-dimensional language; it not only moves through time in a linear way, but is involved with texture and the coming together of many layers at many different levels.  It is an incredible thing. Perhaps I am biased when I say that music goes beyond language, but it does."