Quotes About Emotion

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.