Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

All music is beautiful.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

If it's good music, it's good music.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

It's fun to move people musically.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care about.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

My music is my soul speaking, literally. It's spiritual. It has a lot of feelings, a lot of pain.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

The important point that Benjamin and Kant make is that revolutions, whether in art or in society, are about emotion. These moments engender not simply new ideas but new feelings about established power and human possibilities.

She hadn't expected the intamacy of his voice in her head. It had a smoothness to it that gave way now and then to gravel.

Ricco went absolutely still. The pitch was low and sweet. That tone pushed into his chest, right into his center, as if it were a key unlocking something tight and hard in him. He moved his hand over his heart as an unknown emotion seized it hard, wrenching, twisting, forcing that lock to open so that his own music could be heard pounding in his ear, beating like a lost drum seeking the right rhythm.

The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, according to his mood.

I am not inclined to use hip-hop vernacular often, but there are times when, like French, it just better expresses the sentiment of the moment

These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Ama baz? ÅŸeyler yürekle sezilir.

Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories for his son to upload to his iPod and listen to on the day of his burial.