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Quotes About Emotion

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
~ Jim Morrison
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
~ A. R. Rahman
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
~ Jelly Roll Morton
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
~ Miles Davis
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.
~ Mata Hari
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
~ Billie Holiday
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
~ Wes Montgomery
Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.
~ Duke Ellington
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
~ Count Basie
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
~ Keith Richards, Life
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
~ Don Williams
When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
~ Eric Dolphy
I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.
~ Leopold Sedar Senghor
Life without music is unthinkable.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
~ Richard Wagner
Music fathoms the sky.
~ Charles Baudelaire
To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
~ Waylon Jennings
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
~ Serj Tankian
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
~ Hermann Hesse
Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy
~ Matthew Healy
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich