Quotes about Emotional Resonance

That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

D is a wholesome key. It's not bland, like C. It's not neutral. It's probably on the bright side.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

I like music where it can be taken in at many levels, as far as the emotions behind it. Somebody like Miles Davis - there's such a wide range of feelings within even one note. Those kinds of things really resonate for me. It's kind of inspiring in a human kind of way.

What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile.

Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

Mille anni addietro il poeta Han Yun scrisse: «Tutto ciò che non ha pace griderà forte». Paragonò il bisogno umano di esprimere i sentimenti con la scrittura alla forza naturale che spinge le piante a stormire nel vento, o il metallo a risuonare quando viene percosso. Formulata quella considerazione, seppi cosa fare. Ci lavoravo da anni. Privata del mondo esterno, avevo passato la vita a guardarmi dentro e le mie emozioni erano finemente accordate.

It was a sad tune," Eilonwy said. "But the odd thing about it is, you don't mind the sadness. It's like feeling better after you've had a good cry. It made me think of the sea again, though I haven't been there since I was a little girl.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

it would be a combination of comfort and surprise an audience might appreciate.

I am ashamed. I play a diminshed chord because I am diminished.