[As reported by Albert Goldman, in The Lives of John Lennon]
Language is a form of organized stutter. Literally you chop your sounds up into bits in order to talk. Now, when you sing, you don’t stutter, so singing is a way of stretching language into long, harmonious patterns and cycles. How do you think about language in song?
Reportedly said to John Lennon and Yoko Ono at a meeting in December, 1969; from Albert Goldman in The Lives of John Lennon (1988), paperback edition, p 433
Year: 1969
Chapter:
Language
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan