Creativity Quote by Della Reese

“Touching people is very rewarding to me” lands with a sly double meaning that fits Della Reese’s whole public life: a performer whose job was to move audiences, and a woman who later played an on-screen angel whose calling was literal comfort. In a single line, she collapses two kinds of touch - physical closeness and emotional impact - and frames them not as charity but as nourishment. That last part matters. Reese isn’t performing saintliness. She’s admitting the feedback loop at the heart of show business and caregiving alike: the giver gets something real back.

Coming from a musician, “touching people” is also craft talk disguised as sentiment. It hints at an old-school gospel and jazz ethos where technique is secondary to transmission. You’re not merely singing on pitch; you’re delivering a feeling that travels. The phrase “very rewarding” is plain, almost workmanlike, as if she’s describing a job well done rather than a mystical gift. That practicality keeps the line from becoming corny.

The subtext is intimacy without apology. In a culture that often treats touch as suspect, especially for women in public life, Reese positions warmth as a skill and a value. She’s staking out a moral aesthetic: entertainment should do more than dazzle; it should console, steady, maybe even heal. The reward she names is connection - not fame’s abstract approval, but the moment someone feels seen and altered in your presence.