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Quotes About Emotion

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
~ Arnold Bennett
Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don't know… It's like some kind of euphoria, that love can't bring to you.
~ Florence Welch
You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
For me, music begins where words end.
~ Jean Sibelius
There is no such thing as happy music.
~ Franz Schubert
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
~ Miles Davis
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
~ Billy Gibbons
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
~ Cornel West
Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.
~ Jascha Heifetz
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
~ Ashley Montagu
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
~ Herbie Hancock
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
~ Richard Wagner
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
I cannot live one day without love.
~ Catherine the Great
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
~ Ben Harper
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
~ Nina Simone
Let the music defuse all the tension.
~ Kanye West
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.
~ Paul Verlaine
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.
~ Gregory Peck
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
~ Kingsley Amis
Music and love are the wings of the soul.
~ Hector Berlioz
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
~ Steve Earle