Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

The song 'I Feel the Earth Move' brings me back to those younger years when I was taking my first strides on the ice.

My mother would strike me off if I didn't say theatre was incredibly important, and when you see something like 'Network' at the National Theatre, my god it's important. You feel like you can't breathe.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

I love those kinds of parts that don't seem to be huge but they really strike a chord with the audience.

I'm really just a singer that's trying to make some music that strikes to the heart.

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Rhythm, melody, message, that's what matters. Our main concern coming out of the gate is to make sure those foundations are strong, the songs are speaking to us. Everything else, horns and strings, is sweetening.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.