Quotes About Emotion

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Words are all we have.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Whether it is a garden gnome, the sound of Bing Crosby launching into 'White Christmas', the blinking innocent eyes of Bambi or the words of Patience Strong, the kitsch phenomenon is there as strong and recognisable as your mother's face. You seldom if ever have the question, whether this is kitsch or not. If you think it might be, then it is.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

I do tend to drape my real feelings with pretty words and different layers and stuff.

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.