Top 90 Music Universal Quotes
#1. Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
Wynton Marsalis
#2. I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.
Alanis Morissette
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.
Rachel Bloom
#6. 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
#7. Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
Paul Horn
#8. Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Frank Capra
#9. 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
#11. God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.
Sri Chinmoy
#12. I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
Abigail Washburn
#13. If you understand or if you don't
If you believe or if you doubt
There's a universal justice
And the eyes of truth
Are always watching you
Enigma
#14. Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
Paul Epworth
#15. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.
Isaac Hayes
#16. I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
Tunde Adebimpe
#17. I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.
Leon Bridges
#18. I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.
John McLaughlin
#20. Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.
James Weldon Johnson
#21. I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
Zola Jesus
#22. Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
Dave Smalley
#23. The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
Kenneth R. Miller
#24. We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#25. Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.
Robert Shaw
#27. I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.
Michael Franti
#28. I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
Nas
#29. There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals ... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.
Oliver Sacks
#32. Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.
Roberto Benigni
#33. Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#34. Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls
David O. McKay
#35. Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.
Ellen J. Barrier
#36. I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth
Pope Benedict XVI
#37. All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have individual tastes, tastes are not universal.
Ravindra Shukla
#39. There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
Talib Kweli
#40. ...'You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always be a local and a stranger at the same time.
Kapka Kassabova
#41. When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
Laura Branigan
#42. Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Sun Ra
#43. The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Argus Hamilton
#44. Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.
Henry Rollins
#45. I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal, and is known as the harmonic series.
Leonard Bernstein
#46. I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.
David Guetta
#47. Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.
Henry Rollins
#48. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.
Wang Shi
#50. I've been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity.
Mark Salling
#51. If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
Jane Siberry
#52. Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
#53. Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra
#54. I always feel like music should be a universal language.
Melanie Fiona
#55. I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-Z
#56. I always want to write erotic music ... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe ... about life.
Toru Takemitsu
#57. Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.
Mojo Nixon
#58. Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.
Mark Hoppus
#60. Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.
Tim McIlrath
#61. Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#63. I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.
Diane Warren
#64. Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
Burning Spear
#65. There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.
Swami Paramananda
#66. Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together
Justin Bieber
#67. The gift of song is just like ... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.
Charles King
#68. A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#69. Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.
It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.
Ellen J. Barrier
#70. Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.
Ella Fitzgerald
#72. I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.
DJ Khaled
#73. Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.
Otto Weininger
#75. It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#76. Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.
Alicia Keys
#77. Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson
#78. I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.
Warwick Thornton
#79. Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy
Debasish Mridha
#80. Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
Enrique Iglesias
#81. Music is like the genius of humankind, universal ... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea
#82. Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
Sun Ra
#83. What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.
Linda Ronstadt
#84. Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
Alan Lightman
#85. There is really no spiritual message that I'm trying to convey with my music, it's just a personal thing. I really believe that the more personal we get, in a way, the more universal the implications.
John McLaughlin
#86. Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people -Father
Pam Munoz Ryan
#87. I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
Isaac Hayes
#88. Whether you love Bach or would rather listen to a composition produced by Kulitta Software, Bach has and will continue to demand the we approach and answer the question, 'what is the art, science and language of music?
Anastasia Lily
#89. Music, the universal language of love and hope and loss and everything else.
Sarah Ockler
