It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.
Goran Ivanisevic

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
Meg White

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
LeAnn Rimes

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Henry Beston

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
George Jean Nathan

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
James Spader

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
Kabir Bedi

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Xun Zi

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
Annie Lennox

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
Roberto Benigni

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
Blanche Lincoln

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep