Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

Dilla could flip a boring record and make you feel like you were flying.

I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.

With 'Ta chuma,' which is a Garhwali folk song, I feel that there will be a strong connect which people will feel and they will get closer to folk music.

People remember my work so fondly.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

I think there's a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the common denominator with the ones you remember is that they all have some really complicated emotional problem at their core.

Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.

Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you've split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

Music is the best.

That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.