Quotes About Communication

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

Every language has its own music.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.