Communicative Power Quotes

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Music tells no truths.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

He was a writer and words were his weapons.