Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often fill the gap.

Thoughts and feelings have their own magnetic energy that attracts energy of a similar nature.

For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many.

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

Bob Dylan, Lyrics: 1962-2001

Each of us has a cuckoo clock inside of them.For some it never chimes.For some it chimes only intermittently.For some it chimes on every hour.While for others it never stops chiming.Think about it!

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.