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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.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.