Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a family tradition.

I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.

I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

Seriously, if people tune in and watch 'Falling Skies,' they will see a show that will excite them, move them, and will leave them wanting more!

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?