Quotes About Soulful

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions.

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

But love love is unworldly, and nothing comes of it but love—following and falling endlessly from her thoughts

become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be.

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

My work is intensely personal.

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

I'm really just a singer that's trying to make some music that strikes to the heart.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to.

Any musical output is emotional.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness.

I got to tell you, that if it weren't for that harmonica music, i might of just packed up and gone home, but it made me feel so good, I can hardly describe it. Sort of like my whole body is the harmonica and the music give me goosebumps when I play it.

What allows us to be human is something daemonic.