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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.

— Leonard Slatkin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

— Ken Hill

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

— Robert Fripp

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

— Bono

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.

— Evelyn Glennie

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

— Sean Combs

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

— Kenneth Branagh

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

— Anthony Braxton

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

— Michael Azerrad

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

— Trevor Dunn

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