Quotes about Emotional Resonance

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

The only thing that makes me cry at weddings is the DJ's playlist.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Picture sometimes says something that connects with people. Connection, that is what it is all about in the end".