Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

The face is the soul of the body.

Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.

I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.

As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that's soulful and groovy to listen to.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.

I want to soundtrack people's layered feelings.

'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.