Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it really enhances the feeling.

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

When I sang in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne,' I never imagined the song would be such a rage.

Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.

Sad songs are what move people.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

In India, romantic and sad songs will never die.

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for other people because somebody else is going to come along who didn't have a good issue with their father.

My songwriting has brought so much to me as an artist and my ability that I have as an artist has brought so much to my songwriting that they live off each other. Without one, the other one dies.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.