Quotes About Spirit

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

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

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

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.