Richard Wagner Quotes

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Where words fail, music speaks.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

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.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

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

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?