Spiritual Music Quotes

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. ~ Ben Harper

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music. ~ Deepak Chopra

If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more. ~ Joan Osborne

John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music
John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator. ~ Albert Ayler

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that. ~ Steve Vai

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. ~ Maureen Forrester

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. ~ Charlie Musselwhite

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini

If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction. ~ Sri Chinmoy

People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual. ~ Pierre Boulez

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Now is the time of prophecy without death as a consequence
the universe will ultimately disappear
Hollywood will rot on the windmills of Eternity
Hollywood whose movies stick in the throat of God
Yes Hollywood will get what it deserves
Time
Seepage of nerve-gas over the radio
History will make this poem prophetic and its awful silliness a hideous spiritual music
I have the moan of doves and the feather of ecstasy
Man cannot long endure the hunger of the cannibal abstract ~ Allen Ginsberg

Music is math; music is spiritual. ~ Bokeem Woodbine

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either. ~ Catherynne M Valente

I love X-Games music. ~ Jon Anderson

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. ~ Chinua Achebe

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs. ~ Nebo D. Lukovich

God does not give his joy to us for ourselves alone, and if we could possess him for ourselves alone we would not possess him at all. Any joy that does not overflow from our souls and help other men to rejoice in God does not come to us form God. (But do not think that you have to see how it overflows into the souls of others. In the economy of his grace, you may be sharing his gifts with someone you will never know until you get to heaven.) ~ Thomas Merton

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. ~ John Perry Barlow

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries - "
"So has the plague. ~ Karen Chance

I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. ~ Kyp Malone

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church-I am convinced of it-a new spiritual springtime. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back. ~ Heather Headley

The still, sad music of humanity. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time. ~ Davis Miller

I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across. ~ Imelda May

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16 ~ John Apostle

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. ~ Emil Cioran

I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve! ~ Latif Mercado

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others. ~ Terry Teachout

When you want genuine music
music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose,
when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! ~ Mark Twain

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.
It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. ~ Gustav Mahler

There is no meaning to fate
If you don't have faith ~ Swetha Dhanagari

When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure
with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown. ~ Elizabeth Lesser

let's find our own sun. grow our own flowers. the universe delivered us with the light and the seeds. we might not hear it at times but the music is always on. it just needs to be turned louder. for as long as there is breath in our lungs - we must keep dancing. ~ Rupi Kaur

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. ~ Jennifer Donnelly

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life. ~ Paul Winter

I am really addicted to music. ~ Gavin Rossdale

Your gut includes the stomach, small intestine, large intestine (which includes the colon), liver, and gallbladder. The gut is responsible for ensuring that you absorb the nutrients of the food you eat, properly expel waste and toxins, and maintain a strong immune system. Yet not only is it critical for these everyday functions, your gut also holds a life force of its own. Food does not digest just from the physical process of food breakdown (a process scientific study hasn't fully pieced together); there are also critical spiritual and metaphysical factors involved in digestion. That's why enlightened beings on the planet employ eating techniques such as slow and thorough chewing; mindful, present eating; prayer before, during, or after meals; and becoming one with your food. ~ Anthony William

I recall one particular sunset. It lent an ember to my bicycle hell. Overhead, above the black music of telegraph wires, a number of long, dark-violet clouds lined with flamingo pink hung motionless in a fan-shaped arrangement; the whole thing was like some prodigious ovation in terms of color and form! It was dying, however, and everything else was darkening, too; but just above the horizon, in a lucid, turquoise space, beneath a black stratus, the eye found a vista that only a fool could mistake for the square parts of this or any other sunset. It occupied a very small sector of the enormous sky and had the peculiar neatness of something seen through the wrong end of a telescope. There it lay in wait, a brilliant convolutions, anachronistic in their creaminess and extremely remote; remote but perfect in every detail; fantastically reduced but faultlessly shaped; my marvelous tomorrow ready to be delivered to me. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

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

You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abcesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'. ~ Terry Pratchett

Love is a sacred spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night ~ Rumi

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things. ~ Tracy Chapman

When we allow ourselves to be authentically free, it raises our vibration. ~ Alaric Hutchinson

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me. ~ Zoe Kravitz

Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn't sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship? ~ Charles Duhigg

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. ~ Josemaria Escriva

Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source. ~ Candace Pert

Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing. ~ Johnny Flora

If you have the world in your heart, you have the universe in your soul. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo