Quotes About Feeling

I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.

Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.

My music's doing things, out there in the world, and that's a very positive feeling, you know? I haven't had a job I've been this good at or this excited about since I was a dog groomer!

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

The Guns N' Roses reunion didn't happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

I never use powder unless I'm about to be in front of a camera. I don't need that matte, crunchy feeling.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.

A crowd urging you on to do well can be very encouraging. It's very fun. It can be a really cool feeling.