Quotes about Emotional Resonance

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'dWith melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave:Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

When she sang she could make people laugh or dance or fall in love or go to war.

I can still feel it. I don't mean 'in my tender heart, it still pains me so.' I can still feel what he did, in my body, standing here, right now.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

que la música en los oídos de los demás sea mi sinfonía, que la sonrisa en los labios de los demás sea mi felicidad».

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

We don't make music - it makes us.

music, I would argue, is a part of what makes us human.

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing. It's whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

Las tristezas se olvidan con Botticelli, los miedos se atenúan con Rembrandt y las penas se reducen con Chagall.

Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.