Bayard Taylor Quotes

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.

I can't fake emotion.

I just really like it when things are earnest.

I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make.

I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.

Don't fake what you feel. I've never been about that. I never will be about that.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

You know what, I just write what I feel.