Quotes About Communication

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.