Lesley Garrett Quotes

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

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

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

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

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

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.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.