Quotes About Language

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Music is part of being human.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.