Javed Ali Quotes

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

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.

Music is a language that should have no barriers.

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

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.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

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.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

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

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

A different language is a different vision of life.

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

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

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.