Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of.

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That's what I want... just see and feel them.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

You've got to think as a listener when you're making a playlist. So I think 'When do I go to certain playlists, what are the moods I'm looking for?' Theme is crucial. People have a feeling and they want the music to be the backdrop to that feeling.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Theology that does not touch the heart—that does not resonate with your inner spirit so that it changes you—has failed at its task.

We waited on the plaza while the band wondered what to play at a time like this—something to console or wake the world, or simply to please themselves.

At the bottom of all music you have to hear the tune without notes, made just for us, the tune of Death.