I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves. Life is a cup. This connection is pure wine. What else are cups for? I used to have twenty thousand different desires.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
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.
I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music's so soulful... I think Kanye West is a genius musically.
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.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Bloom to the fullest along the cutting edges of life.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul
I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to.
My heart and soul is still music.
But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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.
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...
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
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.
