If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the wo...
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
Music is part of God's universe.
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
