Richard Morris Quotes

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

I am an Indian, so I do yoga.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

Snatam Kaur is a yogini, and I find her music deeply spiritual. I feel more love and I feel more peace when I listen to her music.

I'm not a yogi, but I know the sun salutation.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

Music and yoga have a great synergy.

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.