Quotes about Emotional Resonance

One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

And her words, there is only love, passed like prayer-bead wishes on a thread of possibility as the music and laughter crashed around me.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed.

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.

A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.

As a worship leader, I feel this sort of responsibility to help add to the soundtrack of people's day.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

When I look into the audience, and I just know we understand each other, I can see their faces, and they know what I'm talking about. I feel like I've helped. Everything I've been through in my life, it helps people. Then that makes it worth it.

I mean, sometimes it's really good to listen to something like Tom Petty, that's purely blissed out. But that's not me.

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Tone has the living soul.

Tone is everything.

I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter.

'You Should Be Here' set the tone that, 'Alright everybody, I want you to listen to this album.

I absolutely love music. Music is so powerful and can set the tone and change your mood.

Tone is very important to me.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

I really love that song. I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about. So when you play it, it takes people back to a certain place. That's what I wanted for 'Torn.'

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

Why Bother? Because right now, there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.