Quotes about Emotional Resonance

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

They may forget what you did but they will never forget how you made them feel.

When you hurt a girl one way, she feels it in a million ways.

You will know that you are in love, when their mood can easily effect yours.

A bell is not a bell until someone rings it, a song is not a song until someone sings it. Love wasn't put in the heart to stay, for love isn't love till you give it away.

I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch , he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. If you have to go, I will go with you . My fears forgotten in the golden harbor of his arms.