Quotes About Emotion

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside. -Gibraltar to Quinn

Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.

When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date.

When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background

They'd already taken her from me once. I didn't want to lose her again.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.