Quotes about Emotional Resonance

But you play that passage like it's the memory of love. You're so young, and yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.

Io credo che un romanzo sia riuscito quando tocca le emozioni del lettore. Lo stesso può valere per tutte le creazioni artistiche. Di sicuro è così per le cattedrali. Quando le vediamo stagliarsi contro il cielo restiamo sbalorditi, quando le visitiamo restiamo affascinati dalla loro grazia. Quando ci sediamo in silenzio proviamo un gran senso di pace. E quando una cattedrale brucia, piangiamo.

Emperor Concerto, a stirring tune, appropriately

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it's story.

Music is a second language to my heart.

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

Let some word reach my ears and touch my heart

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.

the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

Because emotions emit a vibrational energy field, they affect and determine the people who are in our lives.

anger attracts angry thoughts.

Whatever kind of energy you bring to it, it will give it right back to you. If you're frustrated, it'll act frustrated. If you're calm, it's more likely to be calm, too.

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.

Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.