Russell Hornsby Quotes

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

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

I never smile unless I mean it.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

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

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.

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

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

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

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and tell you how it is.

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.

It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.

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 want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

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.

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.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

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.