Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence.

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered—they are relived.

For what was a book if not a long consecutive surrender to the movements of another's soul?

S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I'm making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she's given me pain.

Cuando dos poetas se conocen y se dan la mano por vez primera, es como si dos corrientes trasangélicas tropezaran, fundiéndose.

When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.

I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too. When

The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.

To English it was amazing how a song will take a whole confused epoch in your life, and fashion it into something sharp and elegant with which to pierce your neck.

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school— a woman you'd loved and lost— danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Creo que cualquier lugar en el que viva gente durante mucho tiempo probablemente absorba una parte de ellos. No hay duda de que las casas afectan a las personas que viven en ellas

Live with Highlanders long enough, and every damn rock and tree meant something! Perhaps

It really is draining: when you sing a song, it means so much to you, and every time you sing it, you feel it ,and these emotions come back.

No matter if you like it or not, you could hate Drake, he always says stuff that everybody can relate to. Facts.

I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

I can't look at 'WALL-E' or 'Finding Nemo' or 'Up' and look at in the same way as people outside of the company would look at it. Each one of them had angst.

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.