Ben Hogan Quotes

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

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

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 couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

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

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip.

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.

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

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

In every country I've gone to, if you smile at people, they are going to be happy. This is my attitude.

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

Honestly if I had the time, I would love to learn every language in the world. I love connecting to people. If I can't do it through language, I will try to do it through my music.

The advantage of doing away with words is that you can reach out to any part of the world.

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.