Music Soul Quotes

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy. ~ Adele

And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free. ~ Rashod Ollison

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio. ~ Jonathan Cain

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

I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing. ~ Gretchen Wilson

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul. ~ LeCrae

Music lifts the soul to spiritual realms. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me. ~ Mandisa

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's. ~ Taylor Hanson

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. ~ Link Wray

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper. ~ Kaoru Akagawa

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising facts in the history of all the arts. It was the demand of throughly unmusical hearers that before everything else the words must be understood, so that according to them a rebirth of music is to be expected only when some mode of singing has been discovered in which textword lords it over counterpoint like master over servant: For the words, it is argued, are as much nobler than the accompanying harmonic system as the soul is nobler than the body. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea. ~ Brendon Urie

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music. ~ Criss Jami

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~ Arnold Bennett

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul. ~ Wassily Kandinsky

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record. ~ Green Day

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm. ~ Bill Nighy

I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.
He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down. ~ Amy Winehouse

Music keeps the soul alive. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz ... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. ~ Aloe Blacc

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost. ~ Jill Scott

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things. ~ Common

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music. ~ Laura Bell Bundy

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. ~ Bill Nighy

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low. ~ Morrissey

BMG has been an awesome partner throughout my career, and with New London, we plan to continue bridging the gap between soul, pop, London, and New York - uniting them through music. ~ Estelle

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from. ~ Clarence Clemons

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards ... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? ~ Queen Latifah

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. ~ Eric Whitacre

My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever. ~ Leon Bridges

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. ~ Katey Sagal

Music fills the infinite between two souls ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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

I call the high and light aspects of my being SPIRIT and the dark and heavy aspects SOUL.
Soul is at home in the deep shaded valleys.
Heavy torpid flowes saturated with black grow there.
The rivers flow like arm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.
Spirit is a land of high,white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers.
Life is sparse and sound travels great distances.
There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.
People need to climb the mountain not because it is there
But because the soulful divinity need to be mated with the Spirit.
Deep down we must have a rel affection for each other, a clear recognition of our shared human status. At the same time we must openly accept all ideologies and systems as means of solving humanity's problems. No matter how strong the wind of evil may blow, the flame of truth cannot be extinguished. ~ Dalai Lama XIV

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep. ~ Kim Basinger

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection. ~ Jesse McCartney

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

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

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung. ~ Gavin DeGraw

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

When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites. ~ Graham Parker

Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that. ~ Amit Ray

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting. ~ Leon Bridges

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago. ~ Bryant McGill

Once people get the idea that they can listen to music for nothing, where will it end? ~ Terry Pratchett

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music. ~ Margaret Fuller

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer. ~ Elliott Yamin

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be. ~ Steve Almond

I mean, music totally comes from your soul. ~ Martin Scorsese

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. ~ Ryan Phillippe

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul ... something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music. ~ Michael Jackson

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically. ~ Don Cornelius

Sing you a song and steal your soul. ~ Victoria Schwab

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there. ~ Alice Smith

A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things. ~ David Lynch

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away. ~ Maxwell

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be. ~ Bow Wow

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. ~ Haley Reinhart

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

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

Our soul is an instrument of music if we choose to play it with love! ~ Sima Mittal

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything. ~ Don Cornelius

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul. ~ Dhani Jones

I love to soar in the boundless sky. In the vast emptiness of the blue, my soul rejoices listening to the soundless music of the wind. ~ Banani Ray

And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become himself.

But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, not what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you. [...]

And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself. And that the whole conception had been written wrong. Because the only part of any man that he can ever touch or understand is that part of himself he recognises in him. And that he is always looking for the way in which he can expose his sealed bee cell and reach the other airtight cells with which he is connected in the waxy comb.

And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with a bugle. If you had a bugle here, he told himself, you could speak to her and be understood, you could play Fatigue Call for her, with its tiredness, its heavy belly going out to sweep somebody else's streets when it would rather stay home and sleep, she would understand it then.

But yo ~ James Jones

- Brother Jimmy, said Joey the Lips. - I'm worried. - About Dean.

- Wha' abou' Dean?

- He told me he's been listening to jazz.

- What's wrong with tha'? Jimmy wanted to know.

- Everything, said Joey the Lips. - Jazz is the antithesis of soul.

- I beg your fuckin' pardon!

- I'll go along with Joey there, said Mickah.

- See, said Joey the Lips. - Soul is the people's music. Ordinary people making music for ordinary people. - Simple music. Any Brother can play it. The Motown sound, it's simple. Thump-thump-thump-thump. - That's straight time. Thump-thump-thump-thump. - See? Soul is democratic, Jimmy. Anyone with a bin lid can play it. - It's the people's music.

- Yeh don't need anny honours in your Inter to play soul, isn't tha' wha' you're gettin' at, Joey?

- That's right, brother Michael.

- Mickah.

- Brother Mickah. That's right. You don't need a doctorate to be a doctor of soul.

- Nice one.

- An' what's wrong with jazz? Jimmy asked.

- Intellectual music, said Joey the Lips. - It's anti-people music. It's abstract.

- It's cold an' emotionless, amn't I righ'? said Mickah.

- You are. - It's got no soul. It is sound for the sake of sound. It has no meaning. - It's musical wanking, Brother.

- Musical wankin', said Mickah. - That's good.

- Here, yeh could play tha' at t ~ Roddy Doyle

Music's the medicine of the mind. ~ John A. Logan

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. ~ Robert Plant

Music is the strongest form of magic. ~ Marilyn Manson

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know? ~ John Varvatos

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that. ~ Graham Parker

The dance of the soul! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church. ~ Justin Townes Earle

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine. ~ Beth Ditto

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. ~ Adam Lambert

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well. ~ Dave Haywood

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having. ~ Bridgit Mendler

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love ... ~ Dalai Lama

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too. ~ Alexandra Shipp

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him. ~ Kate DiCamillo

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums. ~ Billy Currington

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

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. ~ Amanda Seyfried

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers. ~ Ronnie Apteker

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul's music. ~ Sri Chinmoy

you have the sweetest of all music in your soul just now. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Dance to music in your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music. ~ Ashanti

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done. ~ Don Cornelius

My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different concertos, but then I started rounding out my collection. My dad was a big jazz fan, so I just started hearing a lot more soul music. I loved Little Stevie Wonder, and I got really into him as a singer and a writer as I got older. ~ Toby Lightman

There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ. ~ Charles Grandison Finney

I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences. ~ Angelos Michalopoulos

I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said. ~ Fernando Torres

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ~ Andrew Denton

I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear ~ Ben Howard