Quotes about Emotional Resonance

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

Raaz 3' has a human touch and in fact, horror comes in third place. The first is human touch, while music takes the second place.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint, and I add colors, and I add notes.

I want paint to work as flesh.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

Pain demands to be felt.

People hate a break-up, but they love a break-up song.

Music is not just the black dots on the white paper -- it's what happens when those black dots go into your heart, and come out again.

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.