Quotes About Emotions

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.

I'm saddest when I sing.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, like it's not going to happen.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.