Soul Quotes
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I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
Clive Davis -
I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'
Paul Rodgers Bad Company
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You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.
African Spir -
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.
Oscar Wilde -
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
William Gibson -
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
D. H. Lawrence -
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
Eugene Ionesco
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The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
William Laud -
When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
Kenny Chesney -
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
Hafez -
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle -
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
Plato -
When the individual says he has a valid title to life, he means that all that is he, is his own; his body, his mind, his faculties. Maybe there is something else to life, such as a soul, but without going into that realm, he is willing to settle on what he knows about himself-his consciousness.
Frank Chodorov
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A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
Anne Bogart -
No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
Plato -
And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.
C. S. Lewis -
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
Brother Lawrence -
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.
Catherine Drinker Bowen -
We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
Barack Obama
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Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.
Jonny Lee Miller -
To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.
Gautama Buddha -
Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine