Quotes About Emotion

I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. "I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

Tris." I keep staring. "Tris." I finally look at him. "I just don't want to lose you.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.