Resonance Quotes

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.

I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what's going to resonate not only for myself but hopefully for an audience.

Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

I think it's saying really that Donald Trump was the one person in the room who got it right, who understood America and reflected back to them what their aspirations and their fears and their frustrations were.

When I bring my music to a live audience, I know right away whether it is being appreciated or not.

Songs are more powerful than books.

The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

I try to make what I say count.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.