Quotes About Emotions

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

We simply can't feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.