Quotes about Emotional Resonance

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Every good film is a bit like a dream, when you come away from it. That's what you should aspire to, rather than some social document. I want to create a little world that will stay with the audience.

I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.

Good music makes you feel something.

Good music is good music.

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

A good song is a good song.

A good film is always a good film and a good story is always a good story.

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.

The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Je lisais … comme toujours lorsqu'on est emporté par la magie d'une histoire bien racontée ou la simple ivresse de se reconnaître à travers des mots plus habiles que les siens.

Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.

You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.