Quotes About Emotion

A song like 'When The Levee Breaks' has a very simple pattern, but it's hard to give it that feel that my dad gave it.

James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.

I kind of press pause when it's a derby, and the season doesn't matter to me anymore; it's all about the derby.

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.

Meeting my daughter for the first time was the most special moment of my life. They laid Julia on my chest in the delivery room, and my heart completely melted. She was just so peaceful.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate well.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

When I am in a relationship, I give it my 100 per cent. But then, if it doesn't work, you cannot help it. You cannot move ahead with something which isn't working.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs.

I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.