Quotes about Emotional Resonance

When I miss Guru, I bump one of our records. Then I shed a tear and get back to work.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

When I think of CeeLo Green, I think about previous collaborations, like 'Tears of Joy.'

I, in middle school, started really, really liking country music because it tells a story. It's really dramatic; I'm really dramatic. There's a lot of emotion. It was like, 'This is a perfect fit,' and I was teased mercilessly for it.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says something I have felt, or sometimes something that I suddenly recognise. Other times it can change the way I see something.

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

But I love listening to my own songs and I know they're working well if I'm not thinking too much about them technically.

'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

Songs, to me, have always been kind of like a diary, you know - and, say, when I did 'Teenager In Love,' maybe I was 16.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

The beauty of music has the ability to speak where words fail.

It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

The first diagnostic question follows from the late writer Maya Angelou's assertion that "at the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.