Ry Cooder Quotes

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Music is the soul of language.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Music is a dialogue.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

When we separate music from life we get art.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

I can't imagine a world without music.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life.

The dance is the mother of all languages.

Words are music, really.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

I think of language as our first music.

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