Quotes About Music And Spirituality

#1. I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

Sinead O'Connor

#2. There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

M. Ward

#3. I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

Matthew James Thomas

#4. I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

John Zorn

#5. Spirituality is the dance of the day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Thomas Merton

#7. Music is soul of the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.

David Mutti Clark

#9. The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.

David Mutti Clark

#10. Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Louisa May Alcott

#11. People don't realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart." J. Krishnamurti. "The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.

Kamand Kojouri

#13. Music awaken our soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

David Mutti Clark

#15. Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

John McLaughlin

#16. We start our lives with blues ... with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

David Mutti Clark

#17. We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#18. I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

Jack Black

#19. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.

Donald Miller

#20. Music connects us to beautiful feelings of love, fullness, wholeness and unity

Awen Finn

#21. Music lifts the soul to spiritual realms.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

John Legend

#23. Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

A.D. Posey

#24. 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

#25. Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Willie Nelson

#26. I've never met God, but I've heard the blues.

David Mutti Clark

#27. Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.

Leon Bridges

#28. I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.

Jeff Buckley

#29. Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection
intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.

Jess C. Scott

#30. I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

Leon Bridges

#31. There is a music of the universes in every heart.

Amit Ray

#32. Music is the breath of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. The strength of my heart is the music in my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.

Stephen Marley

#35. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Eric Clapton

#36. With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Aberjhani

#37. 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

#38. 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