Quotes about Emotional Resonance

In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.

My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, What are your songs about? He replied, Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse.

He kissed her palm and said simply, "They're brilliant." Cat drew a ragged breath, realizing that it was the first one she had allowed herself for a long time. "Ashcroft didn't think so," she said. "He told me they were cold and empty. Like me." "Ashcroft has the aesthetics of diarrhea.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great bruised eyes, and his music she drank, and it was wine to her thirst.

Qu'importe de quoi parlent les lévres, lorsqu´e on écoute les coeurs se répondre,

We are our songs and films.

She wondered if the stars could sense the vibrations of human joy and wonder, of grief and despair.

The points are not the point; the point is poetry.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

I learned that my playin' could reach into people's souls. Got them out of their despair. Made 'em think 'bout their loved ones back home. Made 'em feel brave before they marched into battle. Made it feel safe for them to cry when they're sittin' 'round the campfire.

Et pourquoi le violoncelle ? - Parce que c'est l'instrument qui ressemble le plus à la voix humaine.

I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

There was this really rock n' roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face.

When people watch my movies and web series, I want them to either see themselves in those characters or something they can relate to.

When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

I have been told that I have been played at - my music's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I find very surprising.

I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.