Henry Lau Quotes

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

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in India and poems are being written in as many of them.

If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

A different language is a different vision of life.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

I speak two languages, Body and English.