Quotes on Emotion

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

When your feeling down, do you know you can change it, like that. Put on a beautiful piece of music, start singing, that will change your emotion - or think of something beautiful, think of a baby, maybe one you love, really keep that thought in your mind, block out everything but that thought. I guarantee you'll start to feel good.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

If I hold you with my emotions, _x000D_ you'll become a wished-for companion.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.