Anne Rice Quotes

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

[People] feel a connection to a guy like Omar Mateen. But they clearly are not angry at him.

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.