Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes

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.

We've really learned that music is something that people share all over the world.

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

I love how small the world is.

Creative people have no barriers. Ultimately, it's connecting with human beings. There's just one planet. I don't see it as different countries.

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

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

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.

I'd like to see the whole world.

Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not of the East or the West, he wrote. No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Music is a unifying force.

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.