Blood Quote by Richard Wagner

“I'd never been this close to the Obscure Object before. It was hard on my organism. My nervous system launched into "Flight of the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from…

— Thomas Mann

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

— Eric Clapton

“I played a few songs over and over, trying to understand them. They didn't have an immediate effect. This was a new species of…

— Peter Bognanni

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

— John McLaughlin

There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy,…

— McG

I have synesthesia, which is when you see music in color.

— Bea Miller

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

— Novak Djokovic

Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past

— W. S. Gilbert

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

— Ozzy Osbourne

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison