Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

I think all music is a gift from God.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to Bach, I found a deep spirituality and felt elevated above the human level. Yet the feeling and emotions attached to popular music speak to us far more personally, and I couldn't leave that behind.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

Love songs are kind of like hymns if you think about it. Gospel songs are basically songs of adoration about God, or whatever you want to call Him.

For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into the history of music, inevitably you're going to have to get into sacred religious music.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.