Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
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I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
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