Quotes about Emotional Resonance

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

She didn't answer, and in that moment I realized that she felt the same as I. The men we loved would determine our destinies along with their own, no matter how we might wish otherwise. We walked the rest of the way arm in arm, our heads bowed, in sisterly agreement. We said nothing more, nor did we need to. I, Eliza Hamilton

If the name Ole Miss evokes football fields and magnolias for its alumni, it evokes tear gas and shotguns for others.

When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and you tell that story to yourself over and over.

When you're sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

Please feel free to take this personally.

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. At least a rainbow gives you a tip about the weather.

She has no idea. The effect she can have." He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me.

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life.

Every day somebody comes up to me and says, 'That song really helped me through a difficult time,' or 'That's me and my wife's song' or 'This song means something to me because of... ' It's humbling to hear that. You're something special in someone's life, even if it is for three minutes.

Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of game makers want challenge themselves with 'can I move someone?' or 'can I get them to respect me as an artist?'

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it.

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.

Every song is like a painting.

A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.