In this brief excerpt, the speaker argues that musical performance can convey emotion independent of linguistic content. Listeners, even without understanding the lyrics, can intuitively sense the emotional tone—identifying happy or sad moments in a song—demonstrating that music’s expressive power transcends language barriers.
Even if you don't know what somebody is saying, you can— if the person is an artist, they evoke the emotion. So you kind of know, oh, this is a happy point in the song. Oh, this is a sad part of the song. So it doesn't really matter what language you speak. If you're an audience member, you can still understand through emotion, which is really beautiful.
