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Quotes about Emotional Resonance

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.
~ Dexter Gordon
There are only two types of music.good and bad.
~ Buddy Rich
Songs are more powerful than books.
~ Elvis Costello
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
~ W. H. Auden
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
~ Albert Schweitzer
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
~ Quincy Jones
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
~ Gerald Massey
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
~ John Philip Sousa
If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.
~ Pepe Romero
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
~ Edgard Varese
I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'
~ Jonathan McReynolds
Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.
~ William Fitzsimmons
Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
~ Tori Amos
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
~ Florence Welch
People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.
~ Lionel Richie
The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.
~ Brad Mehldau
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
~ Kenny Chesney
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.
~ Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
~ Tom DeLonge
Music is half the film.
~ Matthew Vaughn
My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.
~ Kanye West