Quotes About Expression

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Emotional troubles are like landfill. Get them outside, and the air disintegrates them.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.