Quotes About Emotion

When I listen to songs, to this day, I listen to the chords and the groove and the melody.

I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

I love 'Shadow' the most! The melody is awesome, and I really like how the lyrics express genuine emotions.

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

I really believe in melody.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for an atmosphere and an emotion, and we try to concoct a song out of all of those ingredients.

I would want to know if, at 15, if my daughter loves me the way she does right now. And if she's proud of me, just because I want to be a good example for her, and seeing her grow and how much she loves Daddy saying 'Daddy, te quiero mucho,' which means 'I like you a lot,' those are the things that melt my heart.

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.