Quotes about Emotional Resonance

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you.

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.