Cornel West Quotes

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a certain number of those sub-people come alive or get reenergized for some finite time.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.