Top 96 Music Religion Quotes
#1. I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
Randy Bachman
#3. I've still got the bible, I stole that night from my revival. From some hotel on 35.
Kevin Dalton
#5. Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
Frank Zappa
#7. Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.
Voltaire
#8. I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
A.R. Rahman
#9. There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
Peter Gabriel
#10. I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.
Allie Gonino
#11. You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Lydon
#12. I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
Dee Dee Ramone
#13. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
Richard Dawkins
#14. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.
William Faulkner
#15. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
Helen Keller
#16. Practice and playing music has to be like a religious experience. It has to be your religion, you know; it has to be your trance. You get something from a devotion to it and digging deeper into yourself and the nature of reality.
Jonathan Harnum
#17. Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Mary Douglas
#18. Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.
Ryan Adams
#19. Music is a religion to me and my friends.
Grimes
#20. When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.
Siri Mitchell
#21. What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
Will Oldham
#22. Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
Phillips Brooks
#23. A church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.
Mazo De La Roche
#24. Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. "The world is my country," he said, "science my religion.
Carl Sagan
#25. I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim
#26. There's no religion but sex and music.
Sting
#27. Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online
Torkel Brekke
#28. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.
Fiona Helmsley
#29. I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.
Greg Graffin
#30. The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
George Carlin
#31. Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.
Craig Werner
#32. You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
Jerry Garcia
#33. The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.
Rosanne Cash
#34. The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who - in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses" - cannot hear the music of the spheres.
Albert Einstein
#35. Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people -Father
Pam Munoz Ryan
#36. Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut
#38. I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope ... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#40. The Music of Negro religion is that plaintive rhythmic melody, with its touching minor cadences, which, despite caricature and defilement, still remains the most original and beautiful expression of human life and longing yet born on American soil.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#41. Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
Kamand Kojouri
#42. I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
Rosanne Cash
#43. When I first came here it was a pure country. There was music and dancing and magic every day in the streets.
Now it's finished, everything. Even the religion. In a few more years the whole country will be like all the other Moslem countries, just a huge European slum, full of poverty and hatred.
Paul Bowles
#44. I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.
Nick Lowe
#45. The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.
George Dardess
#46. I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt
Eilian J. Richmond
#47. Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
Gary Bartz
#48. For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
George Steiner
#50. My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.
Moby
#51. I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.
Conor McPherson
#52. Music expresses both in lyrics and in tune something of the orientation of the composer and author as to what the truth of religion is and how we ought to practice it
Robert Godfrey
#53. Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.
Steven Van Zandt
#54. Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!
Michael Franti
#55. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!
Morrissey
#56. Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.
Jose Rizal
#57. Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.
Gustav Ejstes
#58. I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
Youssou N'Dour
#59. In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
Mignon McLaughlin
#60. Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
Will Durant
#61. Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you can't truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you've hurt yourself? I'm still figuring out who I am, but I know that I'm not who I was.
Brendon Urie
#62. I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
Jacob Artist
#63. Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
Sean Combs
#64. A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.
Megha Khare
#65. Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.
Rami M. Shapiro
#66. My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
Grace Jones
#67. Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
Madame De Stael
#68. I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.
Lana Del Rey
#69. One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#71. As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best.
Gretchen McNeil
#72. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Andrew Carnegie
#74. I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
Igor Stravinsky
#75. For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.
Joshua Bell
#76. Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
Eric Clapton
#77. Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.
Jimi Hendrix
#78. Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.
Ornette Coleman
#79. I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
Richard Strauss
#80. Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.
Richard Wagner
#81. Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
Charlotte Mew
#82. Music Has No Religion Nor Gender. See Its a _W_A_VE_ and You Can Modify It !!! So What You Are Up To.. ?
Sundeep Lal
#83. When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#84. For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
Alan Furst
#85. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
James Freeman Clarke
#86. In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry
in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.
Dodie Smith
#87. From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
William James
#88. One can even buy a so-called Religion,
which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind?
Okakura Kakuzo
#89. Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks
#90. They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
John Lennon
#91. I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.
DJ Ashba
#92. Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
Karen Armstrong
#93. Relaxation and Recreation The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God - learn to sleep well - Love good music - see the funny side of life - And health and happiness will be yours.
Dale Carnegie
#94. But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
Link Wray
#95. Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau
#96. Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
James G. Frazer
