Quotes About Emotion

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Music is a defining element of character.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

I see my life in terms of music.

You are what you love, not who loves you.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

Music is a fundamental human right

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.