Quotes about Emotional Resonance

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'

'Blue is the Warmest Colour' - I'm not a lesbian, I'm not French, I'm not a woman, but I saw so much of myself in those women and in those characters. I saw different parts of myself than I ever would've seen if I hadn't seen that film.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

No matter which way you do it you need to make something happen and get a song that makes you feel a certain way, whether that's making you tap your foot or beat someone up or whatever you're doing, you just need some passion about it.

When an old tape machine makes pitch wobble, some people would say that compromises fidelity and would try to get rid of it. But to me that wobble adds richness, it instantly brings back the feelings you associate with old recordings.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

The title is 'Tattoo boy' and I haven't heard a song that talks of tattoos. So, I feel people who have tattoos will relate with this song. It's a beautiful song. It has been composed and shot really well. I hope people appreciate it.

My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too.

Music is the poetry of the air.

Baby, your rhymes get me going.

Be the person people remember because you made them feel special.

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again.

Nothing connects to the moment like music.

The country singers understand. It's always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Country singers are always twanging about that number on the jukebox they can't stand to hear you play, the one with the memories.

Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.

but somehow, it's part of why Stevie Nicks means so much to us. It's why we hear our own broken forevers in this music, why we hear our own emotional avalanches in her songs. When she rides the landslide, she rides it all the way down, and she takes us down with her.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T

In cinema, words are a virus.

Cinema, like music, should wash away the dust of everyday life.