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Quotes About Communication

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.
~ Oliver Sacks
I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.
~ Geri Halliwell
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
~ Brian Eno
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
~ Hubert Laws
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
~ Morrissey
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
~ Yoko Ono
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
~ Marianne Faithfull
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
~ Oliver Herford
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
~ Charles Kennedy
Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.
~ Trevor Dunn
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
~ Rita Dove
Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.
~ Gary Clark, Jr.
For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.
~ Willemijn Verkaik
Music is the universal language.
~ Swizz Beatz
I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
~ Conor Oberst
Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.
~ Richard Hugo
Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
~ John Frusciante
Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.
~ Milton Babbitt
To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.
~ Jennifer Warnes
Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.
~ Young Jeezy
Music has always been transnational.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.
~ Charlie Haden
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
~ Pat Boone
Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.
~ Todd Phillips