Language Quote by Debbie Harry

I think of language as our first music.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

— Spike Jonze

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

— Anonymous

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream

Good music is very close to primitive language.

— Denis Diderot

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

Music is a language.

— Youssou N'Dour

Music is the universal language; it is the soundtrack to our existence.

— Melody Gardot

I think music is another language.

— Dar Williams

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

— Sun Ra

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

— Charles Darwin

Music is the universal language of mankind.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow