Tod Machover Quotes

Music is the way I talk to people.

Music is kind of my everything.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Music is important.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

Music has influenced my life and is one of the most treasured things for me. It speaks a universal language and for me, it is extremely important to stay connected to it.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.

Dancing doesn't have a language.

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.

Music has always been a part of my life. It's my way of expression.

Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.