Quotes about Emotional Resonance

So much of your life is wrapped up in the songs. All the twists come back, and you go back to that place when you were singing it. It's like reading your own diary and being in a time machine.

I try to make it a sonic experience so that when you put your earbuds in or when you're in your room, it sounds like an enveloping feeling. I think that is the most important thing, that wherever you are, it is wrapping you up and making you feel safe and comfortable.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.

From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone.

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I'll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people - and it does, with some.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.

Sea, I am like you, filled with broken voices

A lembrança da vida da gente se guarda em trechos diversos, cada um com seu signo e sentimento, uns com os outros acho que nem não misturam. Contar seguido, alinhavado, só mesmo sendo as coisas de rasa importância. De cada vivimento que eu real tive, de alegria forte ou pesar, cada vez daquela hoje vejo que eu era como se fosse diferente pessoa. Sucedido desgovernado. Assim eu acho, assim é que eu conto.

those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Elle se laissait aller au bercement des mélodies et se sentait elle-même vibrer de tout son être comme si les archets des violons se fussent promenés sur ses nerfs.

Deixava-se levar pelo balanço das melodias e sentia que ela própria vibrava em todo seu ser, como se os arcos dos violinos viessem passear sobre seus nervos.

Ponekad mi se vaše re?i vra?aju u svest kao daleki odjek, kao zvuk zvona koji donosi vetar; i ?ini mi se da ste tu, kraj mene, kad u knjigama ?itam odlomke koji govore o ljubavi.

Nothing consoles like the blues.

I don't know why, but I decided to walk over to her.… because the lonely can sometimes sense the lonely.