Ingmar Bergman Quotes

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

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be funny. It can be so many different things. And it just and it gives you variety from and again, there's a certain stylization that happens with music. Animation and music seem to go together well.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

I like music when it makes you feel.

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

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

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.