Suzanne Farrell Quotes

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.

Mine would be Your Song, which is just one of his ones that I... I was actually glad the whole song wasn't played in this film and it's just a few bars of it because it makes me cry. You know, there are some songs that just make the hairs on the back of your neck just stand up? That's one of those for me - I put it on if I want a good cry.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.