Sacred Sound Quotes

Music is my religion.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.

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

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

Music and religion keep me young.

Music is a form of prayer.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

The universe itself was created by the sound waves which that almighty created. So music and spirituality go together. Everything is interconnected.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

My God is rock'n'roll.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.

Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.

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