The Edge Quotes

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

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.

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

Music has no borders, which is most important.

In music, there is no country; there is no time.

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

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.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

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

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.

Music truly is the universal language.

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

Music is a language that should have no barriers.

Through our concerts and tours, we learned that our music is capable of bringing people together, breaking borders and genres. To symbolize all of that, we decided to sing 'The One' in English.

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

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