Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

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.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Music is a universal language.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

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

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

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

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

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

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

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

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.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

Music is a language that should have no barriers.