Steve Swallow Quotes

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

We may not realise it, but dancing is a form of meditation.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.