Jon Fishman Quotes

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

Music is my life. It is sacred.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I kind of think that music in general is a sacred thing, and that's what music has kind of always been for me.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

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.

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

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

Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.