Quotes About Soul

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

All that really moves me is music.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.

Music happens. It cannot be made.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

Music is the highest form of communication.

Music is my life.

Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

I just love dancing. When the music is really hitting my soul, then I really want to get into it.