Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.

Don't you dare write any romantic songs about springtime Aubrey. It would kill me, and dying once is bad enough.

but a drunk doesn't care about what's been said before, he cares about now and about how he feels, dragging that stuff up is like putting on a good old blues song you've heard a hundred times. You know the words, but it still does you good.

Humor is a universal lanuage.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

The blues is life itself.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

I can't imagine life without singing.

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.

I had no right to move out of my books and music, which was what I did when I met you

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. The passion they have aroused lives after them, easy to transmute or to transfer, but well-nigh impossible to destroy.

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