Quotes about Emotional Resonance

It goes like thisThe fourth, the fifthThe minor fall, the major liftThe baffled king composing Hallelujah.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Mostly, when you are shooting for action or intimate scenes, and you need to hold them, it takes away the mood if you both are not in sync. I have faced such situations and I think having a good bond with your co-stars only adds value to the scene.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

visitors to your site still want to read about themselves more than about you.

That was when it was sad, when you lay awake at night and remembered things. That was when it was sad, when you stood by the bed and undressed, thinking, "When he kisses me, shivers run up my back. I am hopeless, resigned, utterly happy. Is that me? I am bad, not good any longer, bad. That has no meaning, absolutely none. Just words. But something about the darkness of the streets has a meaning.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end

Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.