Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

cette tristesse [...] , je pourrais presque lui donner mon nom tellement elle me ressemble

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number, and all the same.

History could make a stone weep.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.

Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

She can feel it all, centuries of habitation, paint over paint over plaster over stone.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return.

whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

There is one thing, and one thing only, you can do for me," said Lopez. His voice was peculiarly sweet, and when he spoke his words seemed to mean more than when they came from other mouths. But Mr. Wharton did not like sweet voices and mellow, soft words, — at least not from men's mouths.

As we've been talking about, no matter what we're doing on the outside, people respond primarily to how we're feeling about them on the inside. And how we're feeling about them depends on whether we're in or out of the box concerning them. Let me illustrate that point further with a couple of examples.

What I wanted was to penetrate so deeply into the lives of others that when they heard my voice they would have the impression they were speaking to themselves.

If you are in the habit of absorbing someone else's energy, pay closer attention to your vibes and then ask yourself if they are, in fact, your vibes. The depression or anxiety you're feeling may not really be your own; it may be the result of absorbing too much of what's around you.

She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.

Soon, soon you'll scream aloud—what haven won't reverberate?

What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a deep anguish, but whose lips are so fashioned that the moans and cries which pass over them are transformed into ravishing music….And men crowd about the poet and say to him, 'Sing for us soon again'- which is as much to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul, but may your lips be fashioned as before; for the cries would only distress us, but the music, the music is delightful.

You can't go through life not listening to music.

When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.

Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

Or bid the soul of Orpheus singSuch notes as, warbled to the string,Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

The quavering, sensual voice of Elvis Presley is coming from the juke-box in lonesome, sad, sustained, orgasmic moans: The bell-hop's tears keep flowing The desk clerk's dressed in black. Ã¢â'¬Â¦