Ry Cooder Quotes

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.

Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

If there's a moment on the record to reach people where they are, it's 'Even If'. We're ministers first. We're trying to reach the hurting first. This song wrecked us.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

'Haaye ve' is a very special song that evokes many emotions.

Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

I always try to take performances as an opportunity to implant my spirit into the hearts and minds of anyone in a hundred-yard vicinity.

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.