Top 1200 Soul Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.

This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

I started with soul music and icons like Aretha Franklin and Etta James and then moved to R&B and artists such as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill. Electronic music came later on, when I was in high school and I was really influenced by artists like Skrillex and Major Lazer.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.

As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it. It's not air, it's not wind, it's not anything like that. It's solid. It's thick. It's like summertime in New York.

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, “I know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses. 'Port Blue' is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel." "If by chance you ever feel as though you’ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me. This music is my heart and soul. This is who? I am." (Adam R. Young, 2006)

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.

I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

I strongly believe that music comes from the soul and no amount of technology can 'manufacture' that.

I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

I am an old soul: I do know so much about music history.