Quotes About Emotion

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

I only cook when I'm in love.

When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through writing songs, that's a pretty cool thing to do.

I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It's a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.

I like a character, not a costume - the idea of putting on clothes and you become someone else.

I love Aparna Sen. I've watched '36 Chowringhee Lane' too many times to count.

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.