Quotes about Emotional Resonance

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

Sentiment is wherever you go.

I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

Any composer should be able to synthesize the primary feelings that the characters are going through in the movie.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.

I get so much mail from women who have lost children because one of my books is about that. There was also a period when my marriage was in difficulty, which people connected with.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Fairly OddParents' is one of those rare shows that really resonated with people beyond demographics.

I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.

Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.