Music Has No Language Quotes

#1. We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Debbie Harry

#2. My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Elfriede Jelinek

#3. That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

William Fitzsimmons

#4. Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.

Knut Hamsun

#5. Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

Paul Horn

#6. I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

Will Oldham

#7. Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities ... much more so than music or language.

Conrad Hall

#8. Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

John McLaughlin

#9. Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

T Bone Burnett

#10. Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

T.L. Rese

#11. 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

#12. Music is the eternal language of love for every living species.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

Little Richard

#14. Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it to the young, our interest in poetry, and our conception of what it is, and even our response to music and how we judge it.

John McWhorter

#15. Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Billy Connolly

#17. It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Sri Chinmoy

#18. In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.

Wynton Marsalis

#19. I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

Alicia Keys

#20. We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language ... We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

Lewis Thomas

#21. What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ...

Anton Webern

#22. Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#23. I think of language as our first music.

Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Ernest L. Boyer

#25. It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

Victor L. Wooten

#26. That's what music did. It made you feel.
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Music, her grandfather always told her, was language. A special language, a gift from the Muses, something all people are born understanding but few people can thoroughly translate.

Sara Zarr

#27. Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

Daniel Radcliffe

#28. It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Voltaire

#29. To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Ray Charles

#30. There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

Matthew Bellamy

#31. Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Mandy Patinkin

#32. Music is a second language to my heart.

Mara Arps

#33. I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

William Eggleston

#34. Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone - even a tree can understand music.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.

The Unknown

#36. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.

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