Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.

People just want good stories.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

Our sole mission on this show is to make people think, make people feel, and make people happy as much as we can.

'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

I don't really connect with super-sad, somber songs.

When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

You don't love a girl because of beauty.You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to.