Marion Cotillard Quotes

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

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.

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.

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

You can go to some countries where people may not be able to conversate with you, but they can sing your lyrics word for word.

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

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

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

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

Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can't speak the same language, is crazy.

Music - it speaks to everyone. Music speaks to everyone on so many different levels.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

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 don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.