Soulful Expression Quotes

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

Sufi music talks about connecting people. It talks about connecting hearts and connecting man with God. Everything that talks about connection is Sufi.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Blues is a very physical music.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Music and religion keep me young.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.