Explore Quotes on Soul

There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

I feel that people in Europe are different from Americans - I think your soul is a little deeper.

There's something cool about playing 'Tempted' and then picking up the mandolin and playing 'Dark as a Dungeon' and standing on the classics. It's nice to just let soul rule.

Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. The more I think about energy, the simpler my art becomes, because it is just about pure presence.

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.