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Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. -- Spike Jonze
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart. -- Gioachino Rossini
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries. -- Geoff Zanelli
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
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work. -- Caroline Shaw
Music is the soul of language. -- Max Heindel
Music is the universal language of mankind. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind. -- Paul Horn
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. -- Glenn Beck
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. -- John Lydon
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. -- Frank Capra
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. -- Janet Fitch
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. -- Jimmy Carter
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. -- Quincy Jones
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
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
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
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. -- June Jordan
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. -- Michael Cunningham
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music. -- Jessye Norman
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. -- Marianne Wiggins
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. -- Fred Frith
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. -- Robert Fripp
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved. -- Daniel Tammet
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Music is the universal language. -- Swizz Beatz
Music is a universal language. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Music is indeed the Universal Language. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Music is the language of heaven. -- Levon Helm
Color is a language, like music. -- Vlady Kibalchich Russakov
Every language has its own music. -- Sid Caesar
I think music is another language. -- Dar Williams
Music truly is the universal language. -- Herbie Hancock
Music transcends the boundaries of language. -- Heather Wolf
Instrumental music can spread the international language. -- Herb Alpert
Music is a language, a universal language. -- Sun Ra
Music is the language spoken by angels. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is a kind of harmonious language. -- Gioachino Rossini
All language is an aspiration to music. -- Steve Almond
I think of language as our first music. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
Jazz music is a language of the emotions. -- Charles Mingus
Music begins where the possibilities of language end. -- Jean Sibelius
Good music is very close to primitive language. -- Denis Diderot
Music is a second language to my heart. -- Mara Arps
Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning. -- David Mitchell
The world's most famous and popular language is music. -- Psy
Music is a language that speaks to people emotions. -- The Unknown
Music is the language of love, nature, and eternity. -- Debasish Mridha
Music is a language, you see, a universal language. -- Sun Ra
Music is the language of the heart without words. -- Shinichi Suzuki
If you ask me, music is the language of memory -- Jodi Picoult
I always feel like music should be a universal language. -- Melanie Fiona
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. -- Herbie Hancock
Music is the most spiritual language for the human being. -- Celedonio Romero
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows. -- Bill Hicks
Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together. -- Ella Fitzgerald
Lyrics belongs to us ina specific language, but music is universal. -- Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal. -- Warwick Thornton
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. -- Clifford Odets
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. -- Stevie Wonder
Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good. -- John Seagall
Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language. -- Russell Malone
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. -- Conrad Hall
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. -- Ambrose Bierce
Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. -- Pattiann Rogers
You can just enjoy music without understanding it, muusic is a universal language. -- Cl 2ne1
Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead. -- Kim Jong-hyun
Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music. -- CL
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. -- Henry David Thoreau
When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express. -- A. R. Rahman
Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand. -- Debasish Mridha
Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. -- Ellen J. Barrier
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. -- Cornel West
You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language. -- Jake Shimabukuro
Music is the language of the heart; it makes our soul dance with joy. -- Debasish Mridha
My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds. -- Paul Horn
Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love. -- Debasish Mridha
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond. -- Robert Schumann
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. -- Wilkie Collins
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language. -- Roger Scruton
Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess. -- Ben Goertzel
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. -- Antonin Artaud
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos. -- Tom Kenyon
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. -- James Martineau
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could. -- Elizabeth Smart
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. -- John Erskine
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form. -- Matthew Bellamy
Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language. -- James Blunt
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. -- Jerry Garcia
Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven. -- Milton Babbitt
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language. -- Ernest Klein
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. -- Kahlil Gibran
I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak. -- Andre Rieu
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. -- Kahlil Gibran
Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words. -- Billy Connolly
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. -- Irene Nemirovsky
Music does not need the language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. -- Jodi Picoult
Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language. -- John McLaughlin
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. -- Pattiann Rogers
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls -- David O. McKay
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. -- T Bone Burnett
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul -- George Crumb
It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world. -- Sri Chinmoy
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing. -- Nitin Sawhney
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. -- Debbie Harry
I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. -- Mos Def
If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. -- Jerry Garcia
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words. -- Mandy Patinkin
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. -- Rafal Blechacz
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. -- Zedd
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. -- Cornel West
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. -- Alasdair Gray
Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in. -- Gwenno
I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority. -- Reggie Watts
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. -- Hermann Weyl
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. -- Jerome Kern

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