Robert Schumann Quotes

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Music is the silence between the notes.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

Music is something no one can control.

Music is about feeling.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

Words are music, really.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.