J Balvin Quotes

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

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

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

You can go to some countries where people may not be able to conversate with you, but they can sing your lyrics word for word.

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.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

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

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

When I perform in another country. The local people there sing along to my song in Korean.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can't speak the same language, is crazy.