True Feeling Quotes

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I wanted to go to a place with my first album that was just to the root, to the heart of emotion, and just unbridled by anything that wasn't truly in my heart.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I mean, it wasnt like I had said to myself beforehand, 'OK, I'm gonna go out there and sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in the weirdest way possible and cause a commotion.' I just sang it the way I felt it I sang it the only way I could.

When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

I can't fake emotion.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.