Quotes About Emotion

Music isn't only a profession.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

Love is nature's psychotherapy.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.