Music Can Speak Quotes

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

Glenn Branca

#2. Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

Judy Collins

#3. I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.

Shane Carruth

#4. I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

Marilyn Manson

#5. I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

Tove Lo

#6. I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

Teddy Pendergrass

#7. I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

Andre Rieu

#8. I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

Adam McKay

#9. One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Vincent Van Gogh

#10. I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

Mike Willis

#11. I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.

Prince Royce

#12. You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

Victor L. Wooten

#13. I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Chester Bennington

#14. It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I've long believed that the gods give us the music we're supposed to hear at the times we're supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in and of itself an inherently magical language that can, at proper times, speak to the soul.

Ruadhan J. McElroy

#16. I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Common

#17. I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

Ed Sheeran

#18. You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

Michael Hedges

#19. You can find hurt and pain in my music while finding the light. It represents empowerment ... I speak from a very truthful and sincere place ... with love

Stacy Barthe

#20. Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

George Jones

#21. I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

Dawn Angelique

#22. Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

Emmanuel Jal

#23. I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

Eddi Reader

#24. It's really strange, but they speak to me - the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people's music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.

Yanni

#25. With music you can speak to anyone.

Daniel Suarez

#26. I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Laura Bell Bundy

#27. When they can hear each other over the wind and the music, they speak Connecticut: I will not Stamford this type of behavior. What's Groton into you? What did Danbury his Hartford? New Haven can wait. Darien't no place I'd rather I'd rather be.

David Levithan

#28. For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

Yelawolf

#29. In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

Leonard Slatkin