Quotes About Soulful

Music is math; music is spiritual.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

I was really enjoying playing 'The Sea,' but it is quite an intense and emotional record.

In other words, if the journey you have chosen is indeed a pilgrimage, a soulful journey, it will be rigorous. Ancient wisdom suggests if you aren't trembling as you approach the sacred, it isn't the real thing. The sacred, in its various guises as holy ground, art, or knowledge, evokes emotion and commotion.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord and the way they make you feel.

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.

I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Be authentic, be true, sing what's in your heart.

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

Hablaba con los ojos, con la boca, con toda mi cara, lo hacía con el alma cuando hablaba con el

A Motown Christmas CD began

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

Usually, if someone wants an inspiring-type number - patriotic, gospel, big love song - then I think you do think of me.

Though not boastful, Leonard gives off an unmistakable air of a man who has always been there before you. He possesses that old-soul thing of wisdom more ancient than his body and his face.