Quotes about Emotional Resonance

The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time.'

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes it back to basics.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

If you find a tune and it's got something to do with you, you don't have to evolve anything. You just feel it, and when you sing it other people can feel something too.

But the more you thing about it, I think the best songwriter is the one who makes you feel like you are in the best place in the world when you are listening to his or her songs. The one who makes you understand yourself a little better when your ears hear their words. At that moment, that songwriter is the best. That's the beauty of a song.

music it says all the things that words alone can never say

her skirt it swayed as the guitar played her mouth it was watery and yet ...

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago. That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.