Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

That's why I can't listen to a whole record of Adele's. She has the most amazing voice, but people must have convinced her they just want to hear love songs.

'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

I'll shout out to James L. Brooks. 'Terms of Endearment' always makes me cry. Also, 'Stepmom' always makes me cry. I guess, you know, mothers dying. It's a safe bet that I'm going to cry.

Mad World' was easy for me to sing because I could relate to Roland's lyrics. We were both the middle of three sons and had been brought up by single mothers with absent fathers.

It sounds silly, I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie. Like a benevolent god, a good song will never let you down. And sometimes, when you're trying to find your way, one of those gods actually shows up and gives you directions.

If you go there—you who was never there—if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there, waiting for you . . . Even though it's all over—over and done with—it's going to always be there waiting for you.

A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Before you are old attend as many funerals as you can bear and listen. Nobody talks about the departed's achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.

I was glad, you know, to read the book. To know it didn't only happen to me.

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What is most personal is most universal.

I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

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There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes.

The poet Maya Angelou famously said people will forget what you said and what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

Great communicators reach your head and touch your heart.

Apple wants to reach your heart instead of your wallet.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

It's not how you feel about someone; it's how they make you feel about yourself when you're with them. (Quote from Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller)