Lost Quote by Beck

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

— David Byrne

Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what…

— Avery Sunshine

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

So many things are translated through music - that's the beauty of it. If everyone's experiencing something, someone's going to put it into music…

— Declan McKenna

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never…

— Lotte Lehmann

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a…

— Suzanne Ciani

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

— William Fitzsimmons

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

— Victor Wooten

Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.

— A. R. Rahman

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

— Roger Scruton

As cliche as it sounds, there's a reason why people always say that music has no language; it transcends language barriers.

— Jonita Gandhi