Quotes About Music

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I'm always pursuing knowledge I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

Love is the soul's symphony.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.