Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

When we think about making the people in the audience happy, or trying to make them feel something, it kind of goes to waste. Usually we have our best skates when we just think about each other, and we just think about being in unison, and think about the program we're trying to do.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

Music is truly universal and has no boundaries.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

I gravitate toward women.

I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.

When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

A sad truth I learned as a DP starting out was that it doesn't matter how beautiful I make it if the story and performance are not there. That should be number one.

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.

Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.

Characters can stay with you.

It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.