Quotes About Feeling

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.