Musical Communication Quotes

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the orchestra understand.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me, and I know it. It's noticeable.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.

There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of terminology that might make it easier to describe your ideas to the other guys in your band.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

I'm a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.