Quotes About Emotions

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.