Melodic Resonance Quotes

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that are just so catchy they end up being in your head. But I think a great song is something that emotionally engages with you and connects with you.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

I feel everything. I feel everything, so when you feel, you know you have emotions and everything. Music is a feeling. Music is energy, vibrations and sounds.

I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love.

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

I like any music I can feel.

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that instrument has an ability to emote.

I want to soundtrack people's layered feelings.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

I am not dogging on non-melodic pop music because I love it, but I am saying that is why the timeless songs are still here. It's because of the melody. As far as what shouldn't be brought back, the high-waisted bikini bottoms.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.