Quotes About Emotion

If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

It is possible to have a complex human relationship without words

Deciding whom to love is an inherently emotional business.

They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

We don't make music - it makes us.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

Musicians sort of knew this already—that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.

There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

Song references are like emotional shortcuts and social acronyms.

music, I would argue, is a part of what makes us human.

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooke that Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their lives were so hard that they didn't really know what happiness was anyway.

Walter Murch, the sound editor and film director, said, "Music was the main poetic metaphor for that which could not be preserved

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.