Quotes: Emotion

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don’t think there’s anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I’m a dog person, I’ve had dogs all my life. But you see, it’s not really a dog. It’s more like a little robot. It’s an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn’t know any of us even though we’ve done five seasons of Frasier.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it’s charged with and how much subject matter is there.