Quotes About Emotion

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.

I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

My muse has always been the piano.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.

I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.