Quotes about Emotional Resonance

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

Ä°nsanlar söylediklerinizi ya da yapt?klar?n?z? unutur, ama onlara neler hissettirdiÄŸinizi asla unutmaz...

Ä°nsanlar söylediklerinizi ya da yapt?klar?n?z? unutur,ama onlara ne hissettirdiklerinizi asla unutmaz.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

there is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend.

Books are wonderful, aren't they? … At the risk of sounding like a piece of steak, they tenderize one. … he concurred again, but had no notion what she was on about.

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

Masterpieces should be kept for High Holidays of the Spirit"—for our own personal Christmases and Easters, not for any old Wednesday.

C'est incroyable ce que la musique peut charpenter une vie, toute une vie, et te la rendre par pans entiers, alors que tu pensais avoir tout oublié.

The voice took Damian right back to a time when Joyce, he and Laurence were sitting at the table playing blackjack. It was all crisp edges and clusters of colours in his head, Joyce's purple cardigan, the gold buttons, the flowers on the table, the orange curtain. The vividness, the immediacy of the image, brought tears to his eyes.

Having something to say is a curse; having an ax to grind is deadly. But everything makes poetry happen.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Sesinde, tesadüfen ya da bir düÅŸ k?r?kl???n?, belki de gerçek bir üzüntüyü yans?tan bir titreme oldu.

in her mother's wedding gown

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

The painting has a life of its own

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.