Roger Waters on the Music of Language

 

Yesterday I watched Chris Hedges' interview with Roger Waters. He asked about lyric-writing and how it relates to prose writing. Sometimes words and phrases just appear musical as you're reading them. I don't think it's just musicians that experience this. It's evidence that music is a human universal. It's also Iain McGilchrist's theory that music came before language, probably 40,000 years ago when they were playing bird bone flutes in caves and playing drums. It must have sounded "cool" so even then there was an idea of "cool".

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