Quotes About Emotion

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

You don't want to put competitiveness and emotion away, so you learn to play with it. You learn to use it for your team.

Losing! It bothers me a lot. I'm such a competitor, and I take everything personally.

Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

I've been drawn to sports stories that have an emotional component to it. I'm happy to get a chance to tell a few.

If you compose a song from your soul, it will come out well.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

Composing is an emotional thing.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

If you conceal things, they become more charged.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.