Quotes about Emotional Resonance

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.

The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.

I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.

I was so happy when grown men cried watching my performance with my screen son Sanjay Suri in 'My Brother Nikhil.'

Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.