Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

Music is part of God's universe.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

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.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.