Maya Angelou Quotes

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

When I perform in another country. The local people there sing along to my song in Korean.

I think a sense of humor vital to get through life: It's a great link between people and can be very effective in a getting a point across.

Love has no nationality for me. I have a preference for dark skin but that's just superficial.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.

I'm sure that a U.S. citizen, if I try to sing in English, he can feel that I'm not really sincere, there is something wrong. And I'm sure that even in French, they could feel the sincerity more than in English.

Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way, but it happened on my way - when I get close to these people, just by the simple intervention of translation I can actually reach them and ask them something, and their reaction is as I expected. I see that the relationship goes so smoothly, and I realize that cultural languages and specificities are nothing but simple obstacles that you can easily overcome. It's obvious that human beings are the same wherever they are.

But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.

I think we don't need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don't speak the same language, don't eat the same food. There's a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.