Quotes About Emotion

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

The life of music is bigger than all of us.

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there's nothing better than that.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.