Quotes About Spirituality

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

All music comes from God.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

Music is actually where I see heaven.

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.