Top 1200 Secular Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing me in particular.

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

Our country is secular and Kerala is one state where it plays out at its best.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever... All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!

I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

If you want to practice Islam in the inconsequential, semi-secular sense, fine.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.

It's great to see Latino music coming to the mainstream, but at the same time, there are also a lot more styles to explore: African music, Indian music, Chinese music.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

India is a secular nation and believers of all religions and atheists have a place in this country.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.