Quotes About Communication

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.