Quotes about Emotional Resonance

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Chaque parole a des retentissements. Chaque silence aussi.

The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.

That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

Martin was swept up in the sound—no longer blood and bone, frozen feet and hungry belly, but an empty vessel filling with notes, carried by something older and bigger and more permanent than himself.

Is that what you think of when you think of me? Gogol asks him. Do I remind you of that night? Not at all, his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. You remind me of everything that followed.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

Music draws me in. As soon as I hear it, I'm there. I'm stuck in it.

'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I always just experiment with different sounds and styles until I find something that evokes the feeling I'm going for. I'm not trying to think too much about what anyone else is doing.

I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

I'll put 'Stranger Things' up there with the best of it. I think it's such a profound show - it's very subtle in the way that it tells its story, but it's very effective. Every time I watch it, I feel something, which is very rare for me.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.

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

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

Music is what our feelings sound like.

I believe the pogroms of November '38 made less impression on the nation than cutting the bar of chocolate for Christmas.