Musical Soul Quotes

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

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.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Music has always been in me.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

I love music with my soul, but I'm also a student of it, so it's very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.

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

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.