Quotes About Emotions

As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.

it was just another temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate

But that's who your wife is, the person you fail in front of. Love is so confusing; there's no peace of mind.

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

Fighting: As with most couples, probably, most of our fights were not about anything, but rather about fighting itself. We negotiated the rules, slowly, stupidly, over time. The word "sulk" got banned early on, in the summer of 1990. "Pout" was soon to follow. "Don't start" was banned in the fall of 1992.

As your life grows longer, and your memory gets fuller, The Beatles come with you, and mutate along the way. They define the extremes of your memory; they are with you when you are just discovering music, too young to know better, and they remain with you, on top of all the other heart noise crowding your chemistry, when you are supposedly too old for surprises.

How do you turn down the volume on your personal-drama earphones and learn how to listen to other people?

It you're feeling happy vibes, they're from me, " Stephanie told me after she mailed the tape. "I'm vibin' you real hard. I'm building a wall of love around you, three inches all around.

Sometimes I could feel the glaciers shifting inside me, and I hoped they were melting, but they were just making themselves comfortable.

but somehow, it's part of why Stevie Nicks means so much to us. It's why we hear our own broken forevers in this music, why we hear our own emotional avalanches in her songs. When she rides the landslide, she rides it all the way down, and she takes us down with her.

Listening to music—it takes time. Human bodies respond to music over time in different ways, and that's where the surprises are.

Some couples stop making each other tapes—I have no idea what happens to them.

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Suspecting you've been overcharged, so making sure to frown as you insert your debit card and pay in full.

Changing from 'kind regards' to just 'regards', to indicate that you're rapidly reaching the end of your tether.