Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

I like Aimee Mann. Her album 'Mental Illness' is so good.

Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

I either enjoy things or not. And things either make me think, or they don't. Or they mess with me, and I feel awkward.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.

He held it at arm's length, through the bars, his forefinger along the spine. She reached across the barrier and took it. For an instant the tip of her forefinger touched Dr. Lecter's. The touch crackled in his eyes. Thank you, Clarice. Thank you, Dr. Lecter. And that is how he remained in Starling's mind. Caught in the instant when he did not mock. Standing in his white cell, arched like a dancer, his hands clasped in front of him and his head slightly to the side.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

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Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

What seems to me the highest and most difficult achievement of art is not to make us laugh or cry, not to arouse our lust or rage, but to do what nature does — to set us dreaming," said Gustave Flaubert.

The crickets were rubbing their hind legs together, unrolling that endless band of sound that when combined with the sound of the sycamore trees losing their heads in the heat-thickened breeze could cause even a girl as unsentimental as Mary to feel like she'd just left something behind on the porch stoop she couldn't bear to live without.

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart," Richards notes, "is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart." Keith Richards from his autobiography

To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes

La energía mental no es una sustancia fija. Sube y baja según la pasión y el compromiso que pongamos en lo que estemos haciendo en ese momento. El elemento diferenciador clave se encuentra en nuestra actitud y en nuestra sensación de resonancia con respecto a una actividad.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I don't want to play the way Monk played, I want to feel the way Monk felt when he played.

FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota