With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
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.
You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
I don't think I do have a soul.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper.
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
