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Quotes About Emotion

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
~ David Byrne
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
~ George Santayana
Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.
~ Taeyang
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
~ James Nasmyth
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
~ Brandon Boyd
I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
~ Roger Waters
Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
~ Simone Elkeles
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
~ Thomas Beecham
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
~ Nick Cave
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I got country music in me.
~ Shemar Moore
I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
~ David Coverdale
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
~ Dave Smalley
Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.
~ Wes Anderson
Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
~ Thom Yorke
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
~ Ziggy Marley
Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.
~ Itzhak Perlman
When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
~ John Scofield
Music isn't just heard, it is felt.
~ Kelly Clarkson
What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
~ Kenny G
I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.
~ Darren Hayes
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle