Top 1200 Soul Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I keep my music heartfelt and stick to making real music. I wouldn't even say it's hip-hop music. My music is 'reality rap.'

In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's soul is eternal.

I just love dancing. When the music is really hitting my soul, then I really want to get into it.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that are more rap have an R&B feel, so I'm with that.

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.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.

My heart gets tight and it's almost like my soul gets congested if I'm not making music.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

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.

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

I believe we want to create a world large enough to be a soul home for us and for all beings, loving and large enough to give expression to the soul of the world itself, spacious and whole enough to express the lengths of God. And I believe we can. The capacity to do so is innate in us. If affairs are soul size, we can meet them because we are soul size, too.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

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!

No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart.

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

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.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

My music is my soul speaking, literally. It's spiritual. It has a lot of feelings, a lot of pain.

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.

The journey of Soul... by the lessons gained in the physical experience... it may take (its) place in the realms of soul activity in an infinite world among others that have passed through the various realms... which first called every soul and body into experience.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

You Australian guys have your own way of speaking about music, you guys have your own way of enjoying music. You certainly have a very energised creative and cultural centre. Everyone I meet in Australia has a very unique soul... There's a lot of culture out there, and I meet a lot of nice people.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.'

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.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

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