Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Poetry must be at least as powerful as music, but I am not sure that it is possible.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

She always said that it didn't matter what your voice was like so long as you loved the song.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Postoje ljudi, koji ti za pet minuta pokvare cijeli dan, a postoje i oni s kojima provedeš minut, a poželiš da traje vje?no.

You feel me?

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.

I cried for it. That's how I see life too. I was so interested in the opera that for a while I forgot the circumstances of my crazy life and got lost in the great mournful sounds of Beethoven and the rich Rembrandt tones of his story.

It's not the words that count, but the rush of what is said.

I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'