Quotes About Communication

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

Music is the soul of language.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

The most important things cannot be spoken; that's why there's music.

I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Music was the voice I didn't have.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?