When you hear a romantic song, the feeling is incomparable.
I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don't know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that's a nostalgia many people feel who aren't Irish at all.
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.
I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.
