Quotes About Emotion

When you fall in love, you genuinely hear violin being played in the background. You genuinely feel that clouds are bursting and you look at every small thing as really beautiful.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

There's a degree to which music bypasses our rational brain and accesses our emotional core in a way that's really visceral and allows you to make a strong impression on people without necessary delivering information.

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.

Most of the time, I can't listen to the song after the video's done. Sometimes I'll hear a song that I've worked on at a restaurant or on the radio, and I'll have this visceral physical reaction.

You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're being drawn to this visceral experience. And then the other half, you know, has lived and died with his 'Nebraska' album and considers him one of the greatest poets.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well, an exciting scene on the page will actually have a physical effect on the reader - your heart will beat faster, your adrenaline will start to flow.

As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.

It's all well and good to turn in a beautiful poetic phrase that ends up on a pillow but I want there to be a visceral response to what I write.

I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

I remember George Jones singing on television, but not any of the songs he sang. What I remember was my visceral reaction to him, the intensity of my distaste.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.