Alison Krauss Quotes

The body says what words cannot.

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

There's a lot you can do without words.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.