There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you’re acting it’s incredible. But when you’re singing a song and you’re acting it’s even more incredible.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music – gospel, blues, jazz and R&B – is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I’m telling you.
It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
I’m never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.
For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a power holding him to the straight path, a guide leading him back from the crooked to the straight. On the other hand, the soul of a woman can be his evil and ruin him forever.
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
The spoken word is man’s physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
How we need another soul to cling to.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
It’s our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won’t make your soul pretty.
I’ve come to realize that you live on through recordings; they’re like a musical diary, a window into somebody’s soul.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
There’s always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic ’60’s and ’70’s rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we’re sort of the anatomy of a ’70’s rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the ’50’s and ’60’s.
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, ‘trust me, you don’t want my life.’ I’ve been a very tortured soul.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That’s basically what we do.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
The subjects I wanted to write about – the mystery of the human soul, evil – didn’t interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.
Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.
I’m just going to go live life. I’m going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
