Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.

You should understand that I did not want you to read a painting. I/ wanted you to bathe in it before words domesticated the experience,/ and you turned to such stand-bys as "illumination" and "transcendent"/ to describe what happened to you. Painting should not be sentenced to/ sentences.

Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It's an illusion I've noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

Muzica este o arheologie a memoriei.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.

Anche se ero ancora una bambina, sapevo bene che quando si sentono più o meno le stesse cose, si comunica meglio col silenzio.

Most of the time when you talk to people, nothing happens. It's all just, 'Pass me the salt,' and 'Remember to pick up some shampoo for me when you go to the drugstore.' But, when I talked to Jeff, I felt that he was touching my mind and I was touching his.

I would slake my thirst sometimes at the wells of old remembrance; But the water is so deep I fear to fall therein.

Jazz closed his eyes.

What's poetry?" asked Kerouac. "Everything," Gregory replied.

The way that the meal or the music or the movie makes you feel in the moment—either good or bad—could be called experienced utility.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

My films are as much for the people as they are for me. The reception affects me, but doesn't change me as a person. That's important.

The audience will always be receptive to good music if they are provided that.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.

Mere recording of an event will not make it a historical document. It will become obsolete with time. Only those that emotionally connect with the audience will stand the test of time.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.