Quotes About Soul

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

Music is the center of my life.

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Music is my first love.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

Music is catharsis for me.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Music is kind of my everything.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.