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Quotes About Communication

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
~ Frank Zappa
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
~ Peter Kreeft
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
~ Matthew Bellamy
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
~ Wilkie Collins
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
~ Paul McCartney
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
~ Billy Joel
That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.
~ Ryan Adams
Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.
~ James Blunt
Music without a message is just sound
~ Jake Miller
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
~ Lesley Garrett
The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
~ Elvis Costello
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
~ Miles Davis
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
~ Louis Armstrong
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
~ David Byrne
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
~ Al Capp
My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.
~ Yanni
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.
~ Roger Scruton
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
~ Evelyn Glennie
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
~ Vladimir Ashkenazy
Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
~ Erykah Badu
I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.
~ Snoop Dogg
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
~ William Faulkner