Jim Jarmusch Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Vision, Way, Language

• If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Strong, America

• I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Language, Poet, Given

  "Jim Jarmusch On Iggy Pop, Hip-Hop And Finding Poetry In Mundane Things". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.wfsu.org. January 31, 2017.

• I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Strong, Men, Rapper

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.npr.org

• For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Way, Language, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

• A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Innovation, Language

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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