Quotes About Reflection

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

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

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

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

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.