Language Emotion Quotes

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.