Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Poems reach me, and hold me, and give me pleasure.

Depuis des années, je tourne autour de cet événement de ma vie. Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.

Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.

If it is true that you are what you eat, it may just as accurately be said that you are what you listen to. STEVEN HALPERN

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

Music is a very sensitive thing. We get musically attached to a project and it has the power to affect your mood.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

I made a promise to myself to write songs I liked. I'm an acoustic singer/songwriter, and I need to be able play every song by myself on guitar. No matter what the production ends up being on the record, I've got to be able to go out and sell it all on my own. It's about connection.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory-- tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that-- but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't!

They looked at each other at last, murmuring names that were a spell. Softly the two names lingered on the air, died away more slowly than other words, other names, slower than music in the mind.

Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.

But do my words ring in anyone else's soul? Does anyone hear them besides me?

When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.

Love me or hate me, it's all in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it to hit home with people.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

Good sounds, they just make you feel good.

I think the soul of Good Charlotte is just feeling good.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.