Quotes About Emotion

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

Music stops you from thinking.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

I do remember going shopping with my mother; I think the name of the store was Ruth Atkins. I don't know why I can remember that. It's probably because it's not the name.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

Love stories should be relatable.

Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.