Quotes About Communication

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

Music is a language, a universal language.

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.