Quotes About Soul

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.

I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who had made it.

I feel like I'm walking into the illustrated pages of a fairy tale when I go to the vineyard. It draws you to nature and cleanses your soul, and you just don't want to leave.

You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.

Music is such a big part of my life.

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

Bitterness kills the soul.

You blows who you is.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.

It does just boil down to music.

You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.