I felt this was my duty. . . to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it. . . into light.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.