Quotes About Soul

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

It's about the music for us. Always has been. The bottom line is the music.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

I think there's an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that's very suited to directing. I like being in the room with actors; I love creating a safe space and a chaotic space for the discovery to take place. I love creating a sense of community.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

Marvin Gaye, I'm super influenced by him. D'Angelo, Donny Hathaway. All the old school cats. New people, I like M83. I like Coldplay. I love Frank Ocean. Miguel. I get inspired by all these cats. People don't know that me and Frank Ocean went to high school together.

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

Think... of the world you carry within you.