Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

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.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Even silence speaks.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

Dancing doesn't have a language.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

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

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

Language can do what it can’t say.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.