Communicating Feelings Quotes

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

The key to having something beautiful is being able to convey a normal human emotion but say it in a way that's never been said.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.