Quotes About Emotion

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.

Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.'

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

We can play all we want, but if nobody's there, if nobody feels anything with what we're playing, then what's the purpose?

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.

Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.

You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever.

Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point.