Sara Zarr Quotes

It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

When you're moved by music, that's always good.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

When I'm really in the car, I'll cut on Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons.' That's probably the thing that's soothing to me the most.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

I love Shostakovich. We were good friends.