Quotes About Emotion

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Bad music can make you weak.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Music is a language, a universal language.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

I only write when listening to the music.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.