Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

I only know that summer sang in meA little while, that in me sings no more.

I felt his gaze, I heard his moan, And knew his hunger as my own.

Creí entender que lo que a veces nos conmueve del dolor ajeno es el temor atávico que ese dolor nos transite a nosotros.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.

Play the music, not the instrument.

Music is what feelings sound like.

Some words can make or break a person, but they'll never forget the words that were spoken.

Tanto ruído no interior deste silêncio: são as vozes dos outros a falarem em mim, pessoas de quem gostei, pessoas que perdi, gente que tenho ainda.

The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.

He blinks; he has to swallow back tears. The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. A needlepoint of Frau Elena's snowy Alsatian village above the sink. Yet now there is music. As if, inside Werner's head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life.

There there is music, almost always music.

She thinks: They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.

Theatre, at its best, is a candle that never goes out and all of these productions, along with many more, still burn in my memory.

That's the thing about books. They stay with you for life.

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance again.

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Like a Star' has a very simple melody, and when you play it, it's only about three notes for ages, and it's quite boring. But when you hear the chords, the chords are sort of different than the melody, and it's pulling it around and making it mean something else.

What I really like about stand-up is there's 100 people in a room, and you can just feel the pulse. It's very human.

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.