Bruno Maag Quotes

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I love accents.

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

I want my words to survive translation.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

English is the medium of communication for people all over India.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

My daughter is married here in Patiala and I have shared a bond with Punjabi as a language.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

Most of my family speaks fluent Malayalam.

Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

Honestly if I had the time, I would love to learn every language in the world. I love connecting to people. If I can't do it through language, I will try to do it through my music.

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.