Quotes About Communication

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

People aren't hearing all the music.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.