Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is quite a corny number.

The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

A really good poem is full of music.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

I love lyrics that are not too clever.

You can love a play and character and can be the right person to tell that story. But if you don't click with the other people in the play, it won't work.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

There are a lot of songs that, you know, just get me excited because they create a certain, I guess, set of colors in my head.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.