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Quotes About Emotion

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
~ Dave Matthews
You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
~ Elvin Jones
I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.
~ Joe Jonas
Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.
~ Kevin Bacon
When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
~ George Gershwin
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
~ George Szell
I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
~ James Taylor
To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
~ Joni Mitchell
When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.
~ Robert Crumb
A stone is frozen music
~ Pythagoras
I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.
~ Iron & Wine
Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.
~ Liam Gallagher
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
~ Ansel Adams
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
~ Paul McCartney
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.
~ Roger Scruton
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
~ John Coltrane
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
~ Evelyn Glennie
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
All music is the blues. All of it.
~ George Carlin
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
~ William Faulkner
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.
~ Natalia Makarova
As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.
~ Colin Greenwood
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
~ Oscar Levant