Authentic Feeling Quotes

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

The most important club in the world is Tottenham. And it is the best club in the world. I need to feel like this, and that emotion is real because I cannot be fake. It's too difficult to create the trust if you don't really believe, and it's not real, that emotion.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor, wow." That's an extraordinary moment for me. So it's not like I walk around going, "I'm an actor."