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.
I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.
Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human beings out here you can reach with music.
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.
One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.
I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
We were worried at first that our music and message wouldn't get across because we were singing in Japanese. But as we continued doing world tours, we realized and felt that music surpasses such things as language barriers, countries and race.
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Music heals. Music grows new relations.
I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
