Top 84 Music For The Soul Quotes
#1. In summer, a soothing warm breeze on a beach is the most soothing music for the soul.
Debasish Mridha
#2. 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.
Rebecca Ferguson
#3. My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.
Chris Milk
#4. Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.
Richard Simmons
#5. I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.
Michelle Shocked
#6. Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.
Tunde Adebimpe
#7. Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Kim Fields
#8. People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
Bjork
#9. With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
Wassily Kandinsky
#10. The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
Sharon Jones
#11. I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.
Stephen Marley
#12. The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
Stan Getz
#13. My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.
Chris Milk
#14. Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.
Timothy Long
#15. Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.
Immortal Technique
#16. You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)
Tad Williams
#17. The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils, The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night, And his Affections dark as Erebus: Let no such Man be trusted.17 Copying a passage
Kevin J. Hayes
#18. Beware the flatters of th world,
For what is music to the ears
May be poison to the soul.
Henry H. Neff
#19. What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love.
Christina Perri
#20. I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart
for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don't have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church
Marilyn Manson
#22. They all reproduce themselves, they all make something intended for music, they all express a feeling in their hearts by the exercise we call dance, they all believe in the after life of the soul. This belief is as much a PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#23. But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it's the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears.
Jeff Buckley
#25. Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.
James Hillman
#26. The artist must forget the audience,
forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
Then, the music speaks through the performance,
and the performer and the listener will walk together
with the soul of the composer, and with
God.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#27. I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.
Jon Foreman
#28. For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.
Moby
#29. I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I
Mitch Albom
#30. There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.
Zoltan Kodaly
#31. All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.
Bryant McGill
#32. Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
Paul Weller
#33. I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.
Wes Borland
#34. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Charles Lamb
#35. One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
Don Cornelius
#36. What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#37. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being ... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups ... I want to speak to their souls.
John Coltrane
#38. I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.
Miles Davis
#39. What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
Mickey Hart
#40. They stayed for rapt moments in the crystal sphere of this soul, as if in a realm of invisible radiation, listening to unearthly music, and then returned to their daily lives with hearts cleansed and strengthened, as if descending from a high mountain peak.
Hermann Hesse
#41. Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
John Cage
#42. All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.
Rashod Ollison
#43. It was Plato who said: "The movement of sounds so as to reach the soul for the education of it in virtue we know not how, we call music
Zoe Kendrick Pyne
#44. Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded expression and then all he tried to do was to make them as perfect as he knew how.
W. Somerset Maugham
#45. But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
Isabelle Huppert
#46. Music" - he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger - "music speaks for the soul because words are too small.
Dennis Lehane
#47. The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
Florence Welch
#48. Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau
#49. It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loyal, once you're in their circle, you're in for your entire career. It just really speaks to me. Country music has so much soul and is so heartfelt. I think it's a perfect fit for me.
Lucy Hale
#50. I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.
Robert Pattinson
#51. Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.
Lisa S. Lewis
#52. Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
Zoltan Kodaly
#53. Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.
Harvey Broome
#54. Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#55. Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#56. Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Greg Lake
#57. Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
Ziggy Marley
#58. For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun.
Tony Blackburn
#59. I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.
James Taylor
#60. As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#62. For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.
Ronnie Milsap
#63. Smiles are the dance of our soul,
with the music of love,
to express the beauty of mind,
for the happiness of spirit,
and for the joy of the world.
Debasish Mridha
#64. I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
Don Cornelius
#65. Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this
He giveth His beloved sleep.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#66. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#67. There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#68. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
#69. Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#70. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love ...
Dalai Lama
#71. 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.
Hans Hinrich Wendt
#72. Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.
Amit Ray
#73. I like music because ... its expressive, you can convey whatever you're thinking through a song. And it's the best respite for me anyway to do it through music. So I like music because you can express and let your soul out through it.
Paolo Nutini
#74. If you listen to music, dance daily and mediate, you have the best medicine for your mind, body and soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles - the creation of supernal Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
#76. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.
Henry Miller
#77. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
Eric Clapton
#78. Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
Vikram Seth
#79. For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
Chris Milk
#80. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#81. Music, dance and meditation are the best medicine for body, soul and spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
Ian Astbury
#83. As we sail in the voyage of life,
the love and joy we shared count more than anything else.
Let them feel the rhythm of our heart,
share them the music of our soul,
for a meaningful, fulfilling moments of today,
for a hopeful, promising and joyful tomorrow
Angelica Hopes
#84. It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.
Mariah Carey
