Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

The great movies and the great commercials always work on every single level.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

There's no compromise to me in what I'm doing. I'm trying to make songs that I love and make them feel a certain way and go to certain places. It just so happens that a lot of 13-year-old girls like that.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

It's not in every film that you connect to the role.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.

I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to.

There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.

Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.

'Bridges' is definitely one of the heart-wrenching ones. It's definitely a message that needs to be shared out there into the world. Something we wanted to share with everybody and let them know is that we know love can conquer hate.

I think one of the reasons 'The Karate Kid' film has stood the test of time, aside from 'Get him a body bag,' 'Sweep the leg,' catching flies with chopsticks, all of that stuff that's become pop culture, is that it worked on a human level.