Quotes About Emotion

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.