Top 66 Music Is What Feelings Quotes
#1. Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.
Georgia Cates
#2. Music is what feelings sound like.
Unknown
#3. I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.
David Finckel
#4. 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.
Stanley Kubrick
#5. In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments. And the Monitors think I am just improving. They don't know the truth. I play laughter and frustration. I play feelings I cannot define. But the music defines them for me.
Krista McGee
#6. You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
Elvin Jones
#7. Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
Dave Smalley
#8. Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
Sheryl Crow
#9. Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.
Oliver Sacks
#10. Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.
Selena Gomez
#11. People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.
Shirley Manson
#12. This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
Jodi Picoult
#13. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
Howard Shore
#14. My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
#15. When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.
Moby
#16. World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.
St. Lucia
#17. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane Austen
#18. Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.
Mike Powell
#19. I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.
Steve Grand
#20. Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Olga Kurylenko
#21. You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud.
Avril Lavigne (Runaway)
Avril Lavigne
#22. Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#23. It's difficult for me to describe my own music; every song is an experience that I set to music. There's no lyrics, no singer, just instruments, but I'm sure you can feel what the song is talking about just by listen to it. I can't describe a feeling, my songs are feelings.
Marilou
#24. My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.
James Blake
#25. I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.
Kyp Malone
#26. Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
Judy Collins
#27. Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.
Ravi Zacharias
#28. A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation.
Clay Aiken
#29. I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.
Adam Levine
#30. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.
John Congleton
#33. What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#34. When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.
Pharrell Williams
#35. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
#36. Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Jimi Hendrix
#37. I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.
Black Francis
#38. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana
#39. I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
Bruce Springsteen
#40. Music is a second language to my heart.
Mara Arps
#41. I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
J. Cole
#43. For each of us is
A separate miracle
In a collective miracle
Brought together
For a moment
By a group of notes
And a scan of words
From the heart
Of one
Who dares
To think
That others
Might feel
As he feels
Leonard Nimoy
#44. If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
Billy Joel
#45. Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.
Nick Littlemore
#46. The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
Paul Hindemith
#47. I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
Kim Gordon
#48. Music has to be recognized as an ... agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings.
Jose Antonio Abreu
#49. Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.
Robert James Waller
#50. Black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.
Jimmy Lyons
#51. Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
Christina Aguilera
#53. You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.
Phil Anselmo
#54. Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.
James Newton Howard
#55. Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
Morton Feldman
#56. When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings
are the only form of art which will remain to reign.
Soar
#57. Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#58. The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick
#59. There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#60. The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.
August Bournonville
#61. Bach has taken us on a journey that we interpret and experience through our own memories, feelings and conditioning. You will respond differently from the way I do, and vice versa. That is the glory of music, especially music as immortal as this.
James Rhodes
#62. I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.
John McLaughlin
#63. If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.
Maria Kodama
#65. Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go.
Antony John
#66. I could not excuse a man's having more music than love - more ear than eye - a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.
Jane Austen
