The Feeling Of Music Quotes

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance. — Neko Case

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings. — Frederick Lenz

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. — Virginia Woolf

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling? — Sara Bareilles

You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music. — C.S. Lewis

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right. — Barry Manilow

I dance because, there's no greater feeling in the world than moving to a piece of music and
letting the rest of the world disappear. — Anonymous

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire

I always did that - listen to them over and over again until I was almost afraid to turn them off, afraid to lose the feeling the music gave me. — Staci Hart

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that. — Dave Gahan

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling. — Eric Dolphy

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion. — Henry Rollins

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me. — Elvin Jones

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music. — Keith Sweat

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it. — Adele

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music. — Glenn Branca

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling. — Erika M. Anderson

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. — Michael Kiwanuka

Can't let the music stop,
Can't let this feeling end,
'Cause if I do,
It'll all be over,
And I'll never see you again! — David Archuleta

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. — Brian Eno

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling. — Delta Goodrem

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. — Kieran Hebden

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. — George Eliot

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself. — Joshua Bell

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. — Kim Gordon

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling. — Kurt Cobain

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. — Brian D. McLaren

I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine. — Joshua Bell

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought. — Yip Harburg

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. — Lindsey Haun

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings. — Robert James Waller

I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it. — Marilou

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music — Michael Tolcher

Singing is just a feeling set to music. — Carrie Underwood

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that. — Dave Gahan

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling. — Michelle Shocked

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

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it. — Brittany Howard

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands. — Brian Wilson

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. — Ed O'Brien

Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well? — Thomas Moore

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul. — Nelly Mazloum

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden

My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem. — Rahki

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world. — Huey Lewis

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler

To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world. — Big Boi

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Robert G. Ingersoll

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good. — Miranda Kerr

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better. — Brian Setzer

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth — John Merrow

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ... — Christina Westover

I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better. — Dan Bejar

Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything. — Rick Rubin

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody. — Charlie Puth

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that. — Pharrell Williams

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. — David Lee Roth

Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go. — Antony John

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. — Cass McCombs

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. — Franz Liszt

Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet ... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none. — Danny Gatton

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything. — Josh Groban

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft. — Peter Ham

Shakira's music isn't my cup of tea, but the way she moves her hips reminds me of the feeling you get when you climb the gym pole. — Brandon Boyd

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it! — Jessica Sanchez

I love that feeling, when music rumbles in your chest and soaks all the way through, like it's a part of you. — Jenny B. Jones

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time. — Pierre Boulez

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. — Billie Holiday

I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back. — Kristine Cuevas

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

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. — Francoise Sagan

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds. — Paul Horn

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound! — Jane Siberry

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

Dex," she said. "Are you all right?"
"I'll be fine, Sis," I said, feeling somewhat light-headed, "if you'll just turn off that horrible music. — Jeff Lindsay

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from. — St. Lucia

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk. — Charles R. Cross

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge. — John Darnielle

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it. — Jeff Beck

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world. — Kid Rock

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. — Claude Debussy

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window. — Steven Adler

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling. — Ladyhawke

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled. — Dave Davies

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul. — Etta James