Quotes About Emotion

I've cried over string arrangements.

I would say that Beethoven's late string quartets are the nearest to God that we'll ever get.

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Music is multi-dimensional: it's all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don't. Sometimes I want to strip it back, play instruments I've never played before.

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

I want people to feel inspired. I want people to feel good. I want people to feel something. I want people to strive for what they want in their life, and I want them to heal from anything that's hurting them.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

Hathoda Tyagi is such a strong character despite no dialogues and expression. He's the most difficult to break. It would've been interesting to play him.

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.