P. J. Harvey Quotes

Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.

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

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.

What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

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.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

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.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

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.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

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

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

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.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.

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.