James Blunt Quotes

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

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.

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

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

Music is a universal language.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

Music is the soul of language.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

Music truly is the universal language.

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.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

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

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.