Marvin Hamlisch Quotes

I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

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

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

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

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

By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.

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

Music is truly universal and has no boundaries.

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.

Music has no borders, which is most important.

For me, there are no borders in music in general.

Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world.

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

I feel like people can be united under music no matter what country you go to.

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.

There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.

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 really transcends languages, and it means so much.

We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.

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

I feel blessed to travel the world and land in a place where, when I sing my songs, they sing along with every word.