@MrMinersBrother said:

@PHiSHEAD22 said:

I agree with that for the most part except for the opening statement. Music is NOT the universal language.

How is music not a universal language? Maybe not for Deaf people. I took a global music class where I listened to Indian, Chinese and Arabic music. I enjoyed the majority of it and was able to decipher mood and feeling from all of it. Please explain....

This is what I was thinking too. But with that said, I could still imagine an argument claiming that, although it is possible to decipher an interpretation of the intent, it's impossible to gain true empathy for the mindset of such a foreign culture and therefore it's impossible to not misinterpret subtleties of the presentation within that context. Phish jokes around and does things all the time that people outside of a suburban American background just wouldn't 'get', and it's often central to their rolling themes.