Quotes About Emotion

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

She pulls me toward her, tells me, "You're sweet, you know that?" I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this time. Our hearts will see to it.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.

That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.

For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.

I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?