George Saunders Quotes

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

Find a way to express what moves you.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd. Just going out there and doing my own stuff and being in front of my own people. I love it.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.