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Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.
~ Peter Ham
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
~ Kate Smith
Music should be some kind of nourishment.
~ Chuck D
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
~ Clarence Clemons
Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.
~ Todd Phillips
Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.
~ Spike Lee
Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.
~ Stanley Donwood
I still believe that music is healing to some extent.
~ Jake Shimabukuro
People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.
~ Walter Cronkite
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
~ Dick Cavett
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
~ Lou Reed
So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?
~ Sara Bareilles
Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
~ Don McLean
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
~ Kim Harrison
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
~ Michael Tippett
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
~ Emile M. Cioran
In music, all hearts are revealed to us.
~ Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
~ Josh Billings
It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
~ Nanci Griffith
The music is the void. And you're the reason why.
~ Gayle Forman
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.
~ Mickey Hart
I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.
~ Michael Azerrad
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
~ George Lucas