Giorgos Seferis Quotes

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

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.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Music is universal; it's healing.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

Music has no borders, which is most important.

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings.

I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.