Quotes about Emotion in Music

The most visceral expression of emotion in music. Votes: 3

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. Votes: 3

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions. Votes: 3

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that. Votes: 2

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. Votes: 2

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. Votes: 2

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. Votes: 2

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real. Votes: 2

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel. Votes: 2

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions! Votes: 2

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know. Votes: 2

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. Votes: 2

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. Votes: 2

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. Votes: 2

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz. Votes: 2

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. Votes: 2

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. Votes: 2

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music. Votes: 2

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. Votes: 2

A picture is just a picture, but add music and there's emotion. There's a story. Votes: 1

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. Votes: 1

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings. Votes: 1

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Votes: 0

My music comes from my emotion, always. Votes: 0

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude. Votes: 0

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. Votes: 0

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there. Votes: 0

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures... Votes: 0

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Votes: 0

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto. Votes: 0

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. Votes: 0

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. Votes: 0

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life. Votes: 0

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. Votes: 0

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. Votes: 0

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion. Votes: 0

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion. Votes: 0

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. Votes: 0

That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself. Votes: 0

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. Votes: 0

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. Votes: 0

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings. Votes: 0

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. Votes: 0

If you don't feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you're listening to the wrong kind. Votes: 0

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. Votes: 0

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music. Votes: 0

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. Votes: 0

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. Votes: 0

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me. Votes: 0

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do. Votes: 0

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise. Votes: 0

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power. Votes: 0

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn't have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside! Votes: 0

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. Votes: 0

Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women Votes: 0

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story. Votes: 0

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words. Votes: 0

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing. Votes: 0