Quotes about Emotional Resonance

'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong impact on me.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

I have always wanted to work with Steven R. Monroe, and when I read his script, I was blown away! I think 'Complacent' hits a nerve that people try so desperately to avoid, which is what I love about Steven's work.

If something makes me laugh really hard, it sticks in my head or my heart or somewhere inside me.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

Winning and losing, it sticks with you forever.

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

A movie that can touch you and emotionally get inside you and stir you up and maybe remind you of your own humanity is a good thing.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

There is an inalienable law. Whenever a character on screen pities himself, the audience stops pitying him. They will cry so long as the character doesn't.

I have to say, for a while, it was very difficult to listen to anything that Michael's voice was on. That's pretty tough to escape. Everywhere you go - food markets, departments stores, TV and radio - they are playing his music.

Love stories should be relatable.