Michael Learned Quotes

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

'House' was such a special part of my life.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.