Neil MacGregor Quotes

Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Music has no borders, which is most important.

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

Art connects everyone.

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

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

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would tend to show our fox signs or move their bodies.

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's the biggest way of connecting people.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

Music connects all of us universally!

We've really learned that music is something that people share all over the world.

I wish we could all have a telling room, a place where we go to tell our stories and listen to the stories of others; in our culture, the telling room might be around the dinner table or in the car on a long trip.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.

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

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.