Quotes about Emotional Resonance

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I'm just focused on getting to the end of each show and feeling like we've done a good job when we walk off stage. And a perfect show isn't necessarily about making the audience feel good. I know I've done my job well if I've made people feel... interesting. I like to leave them a little stunned.

Films I've really liked are when you've walked out and you're still in that movie for a while. That's virtual reality for me, to go into a theatre, especially with the use of sound - a subconscious thing that's underestimated. I remember seeing 'Blue Velvet' when I was 15, and half the audience walking out, but I thought my life had changed.

I'm in a lower register because I'm not trying to shout out over a wall of amps. Singing lower sounded very pleasing to my ear, and it made it easier for me to emote.

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

Music is a big part of my life.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which is why his music endures. It is music that still has meaning in people's lives. And you can dance to it.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

You're able to get into somebody's brain through song.

Music breaks my heart constantly.