Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly.

humming a few bars of vintage Springsteen.

You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever.

We do it for the fun and the fact it makes us feel closer to loved ones both living and dead.

Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.

Never forget the power of music. Spend a little time with it every day

When you feel down or weary, play some music.

seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music.

La vida es demasiado valiosa como para malgastarla con gente que no te entiende. Con gente que no está en la misma onda. Con gente que tiene unos valores distintos y un listón más bajo que el tuyo. Y con una disposición mental, emocional, física y espiritual distinta.

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.

Wie ein schlechter Konzertsaal ist auch der affektive Raum mit toten Winkeln durchsetzt, in die der Klang nicht mehr hineinreicht. Ist der vollkommene Gesprächspartner, der Freund, also nicht der, der in ihrem Umkreis die größtmögliche Resonanz schafft? Laßt sich Freundschaft nicht als ein Raum totaler Klangfülle beschreiben?

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Love is louder than anger, even in silence.

the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.

There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.

has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person?

Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie