Taryn Manning Quotes

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

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

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I do find acting cathartic.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.