Annie Lennox Quotes

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

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

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

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

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

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

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.