Jon Hopkins Quotes

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

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

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

Composing is my life blood.

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

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

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

Ultimately it's a blessing to be able to make music.

To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels.

When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music serves a greater purpose, and that showed me a whole other side to spiritual jazz, one which you can hear in the music - the gospel and blues feel, the soul that's embedded into the more avant-garde records.