Quotes About Feeling

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

Music is multi-dimensional: it's all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don't. Sometimes I want to strip it back, play instruments I've never played before.

I get this adrenaline rush from just going down the course and feeling like I made a really great turn and I'm going to do it again and again and again. That feeling can't be replaced, and that's the feeling I'm striving to get every time I go out there.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.

I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

For me it's a very organic process. I read the script/hear a narration and pretty much know instantly if it's something I want to be a part of or not. It's really as simple as that.

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.