Mood Quotes

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

Glenn Danzig
- Song
- Mood
- Dictates
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

Edward S. Walker, Jr.
- Mood
- Room
- Expensive

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

William Butler Yeats
Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.

Teju Cole
- Way
- Sometimes
- Novel
To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

Paul Rodgers Bad Company
- Music
- Creating
- Listeners
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

Eva Marie Saint
- Director
- Ship
- Loud
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our heads. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

Diane Ackerman
- Earth
- Color
- Cities
In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.

Nick Antosca
- Character
- Focus
- Language