Quotes About Emotion

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can tell when they're loading up for something big. There's just this humanity in it, and I think that's important as well.

I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you are playing only the main solo lead or a second lead.

I love all my guitar solos.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.

I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Working out started as something mental. It was a way to release and let some things go.