Quotes About Emotion

Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

I love listening to demos. They're so raw.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples' buttons. It's played once a week, so every game is important.

That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It's all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It's our new feathers or face paint. It's all very raw.

I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.

I loved 'Breaking Bonaduce.' I was amazed it made it on TV. It was so raw, so disturbing.

Seeing my face when they run ads for an upcoming Raw or SmackDown is pretty insane.

Some of that church music, it's like this pure, raw, unfiltered emotion.

The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I want the audience to feel them as well.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

It's always nice to remember that there was a time when I loved something that I didn't know much about; it just reached my ears and moved me.

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.