Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Many can claim to love music, but very few, in my experience, can claim music loves them back

Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt. But

Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you

Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.

I've got people I want to understand and people I want to be understood by.

No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because they really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self. I have to know what legitimate reason there could be for doing such a thing.

Those people digging around in the refrigerator at 3am, those are the only people I can write for. And that, is me.

I've heard it said that the happiest time in our lives is the period when pop songs really mean something to us, really get to us.

When words leave off, music begins.

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

I wrote a 'Lenny Letter' on a whim, and it felt indulgent, but people came up to me with tears in their eyes saying, 'Thank you.' There's so much shame about mental illness in our country and so many stereotypes about women being 'crazy' or 'psycho.'

'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

'Year Of The Tiger' definitely has much more of a blues-based vibe.