Emotional Communication Quotes

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

Every letter was a love letter.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

Anger is a call for awareness.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

If you love somebody, tell them.