Quotes about Emotional Resonance

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and aspirations seem so important to us as our own. We hope their hopes will be fulfilled and need to see their needs satisfied. Their happiness makes us happy, and we are pained to see them hurt. We resonate with them and delight in their prosperity.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.

Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

El amor es, en muchas cosas, como la música: llega allí donde las palabras sobran

When I am reading a poem, I rarely feel alone in the room. The poet and I are together. It's as if the poet wrote a secret diary years ago.

I want you to play me like a cello.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

If music be the food of love, play on

I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.

her ability to hear music in the silence.

Something tickles inside me, an echo from another time when it wasn't all frozen in there.

WHAT REALLY KNOCKS ME OUT IS A BOOK THAT, WHEN YOU'RE ALL DONE READING IT, YOU WISH THE AUTHOR THAT WROTE IT WAS A TERRIFIC FRIEND OF YOURS AND YOU COULD CALL HIM UP ON THE PHONE WHENEVER YOU FELT LIKE IT. —J. D. Salinger G

The hardened soul melts at the tones of the singer, at the unspeakable pathos of the sounds that cannot lie; one almost believes—one believes at least in the belief of others. At last one understands, and is purged of intolerance and cynical contempt, and would kneel with the rest, in sheer human sympathy!

Tutto era meglio della musica, perché solo la musica abolisce le differenze di lingua o di abitudini fra due esseri e tocca fibre sensibilissime.

He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.

These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.

We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.