“Music is the universal language of mankind”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music”
Frank Capra
“Music is the language of a culture.”
Keivan Tchoubineh
“Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Mankind has been creating beautiful music for many centuries. What we call early music tends to be very transparent. You can see all the parts; hear all the parts. It has clarity.”
Mary Johnson
