Emotional Stimulation Quotes

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.

That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's to make you feel amped, or angry, or nervous. I was listening to a lot of Public Enemy when I made the record.

I always want to go to the movies and watch something and be moved by something or feel things.

The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.