Soul Quotes
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I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.
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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
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My paintings (1907) were aglow with colors and so my soul was contended with them.
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I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.
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Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.
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Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... he must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
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A young soul in my ageing body Hard biter in a toothless mouth is she.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
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To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.
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Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.
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I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
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Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
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In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
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Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
