Quotes about Emotional Resonance

And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps for a week, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Because they aren't clean, they aren't neat, but there's something in them that comes from the heart, and, so, goes to the heart.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.

Love, I find, is like singing.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

Para ser traducida por la voz, así como para ser comprendida, la poesía exige una religiosa atención. Ha de crearse entre el lector y el auditorio una íntima complicidad, sin la cual no se produce la comunicación eléctrica de los sentimientos. Si falta esta comunión de las almas, el poeta se encuentra en la misma situación que un ángel que tratara de entonar un himno celestial en medio de las risas burlonas del infierno.

Okay, but do you know that feeling when you heart a great song, and it's like the song knows you? That's what music's for. Who cares if you don't see how the pieces fit together?" -Bina

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

Do you ever get the feeling that the world is tired, Walter?' I stood there, not quite sure of what to say next. He looked embarrassed. 'I'm sorry. I sometimes forget myself and wax philosophic in the afternoons.' I walked over to the door and pushed it open, pausing to lean against the frame. 'I don't know about the world, but I sure as hell get that way.' He smiled, I smiled, and I left.

I knew my sister was dead. I felt it in my body, as if my bones could tell me the truth.

Sometimes the dreams clung to Bea all day, leaving her unsettled and jittery, gloomy. Like today.

I know why he picked you. You were his mirror. His perfect, broken mirror.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

SAD!' is definitely one of my go-to songs when I want to vibe.