Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world. [From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

They only hit he you, he says, when they care.

The story was never the the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

The masterpiece is symphony played upon our finest feelings.

Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us a little bit more intimate.

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

We knew we made a mistake in 2014. We didn't pick music that was dear to our hearts and weren't personally invested in a program. We vowed to never do that again.

I remember watching an Iranian film, 'A Separation.' When the film ended, I felt like going to Iran, getting that family together, hug them and just being with them.

Just as Jack Lewis could go through a whole life without meeting someone that he loved, so you can go through whole career on the stage, never meeting a play that says the kind of things you feel deeply about!

I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

My essays… come home to men's business and bosoms.

An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

Human beings evolved to reverberate with the emotional states of others, to the point that we internalize, mostly via our bodies, what is going on with them. This is social connectivity at its best, the glue of all animal and human societies, which guarantees supportive and comforting company.

All I knew, then, was that he was going to be my friend. Everything attracted me to him.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Muic is the outburst of the soul.

There probably are very few perfect tracks—tracks that never grow old and never cease to cause wonder. From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

Poems don't deserve numbers

Music always makes me feel less alone in the mess.