Quotes About Soul

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman, people whose voices I could really feel, people with a lot of soul. That's what I'm drawn to as a musician: Anybody that has their own voice and their own point of view.

I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

I'd much rather face the voters defending what's right and true than to have to explain selling my country and my soul to Donald Trump.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

I've always been attracted to more than just the way a woman looks and the way she's shaped.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.