Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

I've come to learn that music speaks for itself.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.

Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way.

Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.

I make music that speaks to me.

I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

'Haaye ve' is a very special song that evokes many emotions.

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart.

I think that romantic comedies have a special place in most people's hearts, especially the younger demographic.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.

I don't think 'Jurassic Park' could have been so much fun had Spielberg not made a 'Schindler's List.'