Quotes About Emotions

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears

If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.