Quotes About Essence

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.