Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

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

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.