Edward T. Hall Quotes

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.

Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen.

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

The regional voice is the universal voice.

Trump - the American people have spoken. He definitely touched a chord in this country. I don't think we as a country can ignore that. There are people in this country that felt their voices were not heard, and now I think everybody is listening.

Music is a universal language.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.